Why do proprietary machines use one partition?

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From: ByTor (ByTor_at_snowdog.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:09:52 -0500

What I am basically looking for is the pros, cons, facts, of the giants
like, Dell, HP, Gateways, etc., etc., shipping their machines with the
OS and data saving isolated to one partition? (I understand that
technically some of them use two, one for the recovery partition)

I understand that on a mass produced level imaging drives through the
line is much faster, but I also know that a primary and a logical can
also be imaged & restored(unless I'm mistaken)......so.........anyway.

It just amazes me how countless amounts of people will increase the
probability of losing ALL their data by isolating it to the OS
drive.....Yes drives can fail and having more than one partition would
be irrelavant, but the probably of losing the OS functionality is higher
than physically losing the drive itself......so hence the many problems
I read about in the groups with people wanting to recover their
data......

Do recovery experts & software companies actually make that much money
in recovering data? Or does proprietary tech support say, OH, just back
it up to a DVD."

Would it really be a disadvantage in teaching people how to seperate
their data from the OS drive by partitioning & creating logical
drives??? Would somebody somewhere decrease the likelyhood of making
more money?? I don't think the average user is not teachable or stupid
for that matter.......Will the proprietary companies void their warranty
service if you take it upon yourself to partition your drive thereby it
not being in it's original state? This part is just a tad concern of
mine as when I work on machines I try to give the individual a little
education on how to store their data more efficiently & offer to split
their drives but I don't want to void their support if they still have
it..........

Anyway, I'm not looking for a fueled debate or criticising any one
company's methods just looking for some good clean feedback and
logic..........

Thanks...........

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