Hard drive partition

It's true that you can install your data onto a partition seperate from the O/S and should the O/S crash or get corrupted you can reinstall or repair without losing what's on the second partition. BUT, shortcuts and redirects to programs on the second partition are lost and have to be reestablished if you reinstall the O/S. I don't know if there is site to read about the pros and cons of seperating the O/s from installed programs. Maybe some others can provide that. As far as working with two seperate drive, one for the O/S and one for application programs, one must setup programs to save their data to the D:/ in lieu of the default C:/program files/ folder.

There is a good article on Partitioning stratagy at www.aumha.org

There are links to data and tutorials on using fdisk at www.fdisk.com/fdisk

I have my drive partitioned into 7 partitions.
C: Operating system and general programs
D: Application software that allows the user to set the drive installed to.
E: Copy of my Windows CD, system device drivers, and the swap or virtual memory file.
F: Data files
G: Game software
H: Digital images. Both downloads, and from my digital camera.
I: Internet. Downloads, saved web pages, etc.

Look at your hard drive as a large file cabinet.
Each partition is a different drawer.

Each folder is a different file folder.

Then setup your drive, and organize your files as they workbest for you.

2 big advantagfes of my system:
When I run a backup, I just choose the appropriate drive.

I only realy need to scan my C: and I: drives for viruses.

Chas

look at support.dell.com and search for harddrive partions and there are no cons to partionting your harddrive just if this machine is under waratee it is not support by computer maker so if you do this do not tell the computer company
easy to partion with nt/200/or xp search for (fdisk) if you are working with me or 98

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