Comments on: Save time, stay safe by partitioning your hard drive

Putting your applications and data in a partition separate from Windows' system files makes your backups faster and reduces the risk of a virus attack.

[basraw]

I gave up partitioning drives when I realized Windows is a space hog and every system program wants to install on c:\ - it fills up freaking fast.

Of course, when you have 3 TB of drive space, 200 gigs volume is small!

[protagonistic]

I can't believe anyone would give this kind of advice in this day of cheap storage. Partitioning your C drive is just plain bad advice. You need a second drive on your system. I have seen too many cases where the C drive has gone bad and people were faced with losing all their data or spending a huge sum of money to recover it.

People take the easy way out and rarely back up properly. In that case putting everything on one drive just compounds the stupidity. Data should be on a separate drive and then it should be backed up to removable storage.

[doreilly]

Repartitioning your primary drive is much simpler and cheaper than buying and installing a second hard drive. I agree that backing up to removable storage a couple of times a year is best, but for interim backups, a second partition is a faster and simpler solution.

[ricfax]

Adding a second drive might make sense for desktops. It just isn't an option on most laptops which only have space for one hard drive. Repartitioning is the only way to gain the advantages of multiple drives on most laptops.

[j_ashtiani]

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[mingssn]

I use partition wizard. A free but professional software to organize my partitions. Work great on my vista and windows 7.