Re: Drive C filling up

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Shenan Stanley wrote:
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Ken Blake, MVP wrote:
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What do you use each of those partitions for? My guess is that a
couple of them are based on a misunderstanding of how Windows works.

Remember - sometimes it is *not* a technical reason.

Afraid I have to side with Ken on this one: Unless one has gobs and gobs of
drive space, it's generally dangerous to partition into more than two
partitions; one for system and one for data. The problem when the drive
size isn't larger than needed is that the user often runs into spacing
problems and has to keep rearranging this and that to keep things reasonably
suited for use. And wondering why defrag takes so long and all kinds of
other little things that show up when one runs low on space.
It's not that difficult even for even the purists among us to switch from
thinking of drive letters to lettered folders, if that's what it takes, but
be sure you have a LOT of extra room for your partitions and size them
wisely. IMO more than two partitions can't be done properly with a 40 Gig
drive anymore, or even an 80 Gig if you're an intermediate user.



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folders - but some people are a bit more compulsive than that would
allow for.

Compulsive or not, it still only needs a proper NAME for a folder to
represent what's in it. They can always label a folder as "Drive L Excel"
if they've just gotta see more drives <g>.

Personally - I am a single partition person. I even tend to make my
extra installed hard disk drives FOLDERS instead of drive letters
because it fits better in my mind.

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Now that I consider wise. I use partitions on my drives, but for different
reasons than have been discussed here but getting into that opens up many
more areas very likely not relevant to the OP.

Just my penny's worth, nothing more,

Pop`


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