Vista - Partitions

Seeing the free partition manager linl promts me to ask a couple basic
questions regarding partitions.

I have never messed around with partitioning so I am a novice.

1. What are the advantages of having partitions?

2. What is the best setup?

3. Is the free offer nay good?

Randy


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Hello Roraniel,

Creating partitions on a single hard drive basically allows the created partitions to behave as if they were separate hard drives instead of one. This can be handy for dual booting multiple operating systems, or using the other partition for storage or backups other than on the C: partition with Vista incase Vista messes up. Vista comes with a Disk Management feature that allows you to create partitions. This tutorial will help show you how to if needed.

Disk Management - Shrink Partition

Hope this helps,
Shawn

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:03:02 +0530, roraniel
<roraniel.3irzmn@xxxxxx> wrote:
Well, there is no definitive answer to that question.
Some say NEVER -- they sow things down
I, probably in a minority, like partitions.
I set up several. Internet software in one, e.g.,
Office Apps in another, Utilities and the like in one.
Images and Image Apps; etc etc
If it slows things, I haven't noticed it!

Roraniel

One benefit of a partitioned hard drive is that you can keep all the basics
such as Windows, program files, applications and such in C drive, and the
second drive can be used to keep the data you yourself create. This means
that if (when?) you have so many glitches in the system, which happens to
many of us, and you then decide you want to "wipe" the drive, you only have
to wipe the C drive, leaving the second drive intact. Many computers,
certainly all laptops, have a recovery disk enabling you wipe the whole
drive, or you can select just to re-create the C drive, leaving the second
drive intact. Mind you, I always back up any new data to an external hard
drive on a daily basis. This includes a (paid for) application to back up
Outlook.

"roraniel" wrote:

"Tonyo UK" <TonyoUK@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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The only problem with that point of view is that the value of leaving the
second drive intact is only there if you don't have a backup of what's on
it. And in my view, having a backup on external media is *far* more
important, and valuable, than having the data on a second partition.

There can be good reasons for having a second partition, but in my view,
this is not one of them.

Good! Then where do you see the value of also separating it on a second
partition?

"roraniel" <roraniel.3irzmn@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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First, understand what a partition is, and realize that you *must* have a
least one partition to be able to use the job. To partition is a drive is to
create at least one partition (normally called C on it.

So I assume that what you meant to ask is "What are the advantages of having
more than one partition?"

For more information to help you decide how to partition/organize your
drive, read this article I recently wrote: "Understanding Disk Partitioning"
at http://www.computorcompanion.com/LPMArticle.asp?ID=326

Thanks Ken, good article!!

I take away from this discussion that unless I have a specific need for
additional partitions there is no real advantage AND there is no real
Vista performance or integrity advantage either.

Ken Blake;122019 Wrote:
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"roraniel" <roraniel.3ithrj@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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You're welcome. Glad you liked it.

To me there are basically two situations in which two partitions are a
benefit:

1. Multi-booting two operating systems.

2.A backup procedure that backs up data only, since that lets you back up
the entire data partition.


None at all. In fact, there's a (very slight) performance advantage to
having only one partition, since it puts everything closer together on the
drive, thereby reducing the distance the heads have to travel between files,
and therefore the time it takes to move between files.