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11/01/2006 04:15:30 PM · #26 |
you're a lot more likely to lose a partition table on a volume that's being constantly written to, i.e. your primary partition. in the case of power failure or other fatal failure for your machine, an incomplete write can corrupt the entire partition table.
if your data is on a separate partition, all you'd lose would be your installation of windows and other program files which are easily recovered.
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11/01/2006 04:16:06 PM · #27 |
I've done it both ways - and recently I did something opposite: When I added new hard disk, I created a dynamic disk and increased the size of my, you guessed it, MyPictures folder. So, no new driver letters, only more space.
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11/01/2006 04:22:54 PM · #28 |
I gave up partitioning discs once Windows recognised any size disc. Now I have a 40Gb Hard Drive as my C: drive, this is fine for operating system etc. If it crashes, then I just reformat and reload software.
My D: drive is a 120Gb drive where I store everything, like music and photos. All photos are backed up on CD-Rom or DVD.
I also use a 160Gb external drive connected via USB to backup my backup.
This way, I rarely lose anything. And it doesn't get confusing with numerous Drive letters when I'm searching for something.
Just the way I work...and I also have a second PC for formatting drives, storage and testing components. It is only a scratch build, but it is useful and doesn't cost anything to upgrade. Bits I take from my main machine when upgrading, go into the backup machine.
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