Re: Disk Partition

John R Weiss wrote:
"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

You may want to rethink your strategy. There isn't any advantage to
putting your program files on a separate partition or hard drive. If
you need to reinstall Windows, you'll need to reinstall the programs
anyway. A better solution is to put all your data on a second
partition/hard drive for backup purposes and for protection in case
the operating system needs to be reinstalled.

Not necessarily true, if the user backs up the system using imaging
software such as Ghost...

Having the programs and the system on separate partitions means having to
maintain two images which may get out of synch. You could not restore one
without the other unless the images were taken while the computer is in the
same state. Whenever you update one you'd have to update the other.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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