Re: Partitioning a 250 GB HD - best way?

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From: SlowJet (SlowJet_at_noTY2this.com)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:12:29 GMT

And the First person to be voted off the "Hard Disk" island is ...
JP.
*snuff*

SJ
"J. S. Pack" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:31:39 -0600, "Charlie" <oil_driller@msn.com> wrote:
>
>>I have Win XP Pro SP2 and just bought a 250 GB HD. Here is what I would
>>like
>>to do: I would like to partition the HD in 4 partitions of ~ 60 GB each (
>>Drive C, D, E, F ). On drive C, I would like to put Win XP pro and
>>Microsoft Office Professional and of course any future updates to those
>>programs. On drive D, I would like to put third party software such as
>>Quicken, AutoCAD, etc. On drives E & F put misc files. This way ( I
>>think )
>>would make it easier to manage backing up programs and data.
>>
>>Do you see any problem this way vs having 1 single HD of ~ 250 GB?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Charlie
>>
>
> Charlie, there's a whole recent thread in this ng on this subject: "What
> should go into the C: Partition?"
>
> In short, there's no real point in partitioning your main drive. The
> desire
> to do so seems to arise from a combination of urban myth and religiosity.
>
> Patitioning just makes backups much more complicated and complete restores
> nearly impossible unless you image all the partitions simultaneously. It
> may also give you a false sense of security and organization when in fact
> you're less secure and less organized.
>
> If you don't have a second drive to hold the backups, you might make a
> partition to hold an image of your main partition, but the image is best
> kept on CDs or DVDs anyway. You might also make a partition to hold all
> the
> things that you never wish to backup so that it could be excluded from the
> regular imaging process--if you're short on space on the backup medium.
>
> As for organizing things, that's what directories and shortcuts grouped
> into categories are for.
>
> You may wish to consider making such a large HD as that 250 your backup
> drive and also keep large files such as video files there that you
> wouldn't
> normally backup anyway.
>

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