Re: to partition or not to
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:00:43 -0700
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:11:03 -0800, death1.1
<death1.1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i have a 300g new hard drive .home use is it better to keep hole or cut up?
A word on the terminology: partitioning is required, not optional.
Partitioning is the act of creating one or more partitions on the
drive. Since you can't use a drive until it has at least one partition
on it, *everyone* needs to partition.
The only question is whether you should have more than one partition.
This is not a question to which everyone has the same answer, and
you'll find different points of view. My view is that most people's
partitioning scheme should be based on their backup scheme. If, for
example, you backup by creating a clone or image on the entire drive,
then as single partition might be best. If, on the other hand, you
backup only your data, then the backup process is facilitated by
having all data in a separate partition.
Except for those running multiple operating systems, there is seldom
any benefit to having more than two partitions.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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