True, if they have no support at all. Glad we aren't in a news group
where
you could just type a message and then someone else could reply. ;-)
But even in that situation, you can make a case that those users
are better off with everything in a single partition, essentially
because they don’t have to ask about how to do that config.
I'd say anyone that can ask the right question in the right area,
can handle it.
Doesn’t mean that they will be able to recognise a correct
answer to their question, and can do what they are told
needs to be done, and can handle the situation where it
doesn’t go as described, particularly if it’s the only system
they have, so they don’t have any way to ask about how to
get out of the mess they are in if it all goes pear shaped etc
and the system is unusable until fixed etc.
About the only thing that would be
hard, is the size you'd make the "system",
That’s not right. Its also hard to recognise what
is the correct answer for them, and hard to do
what needs to be done correctly too.
and that was what was ask.
And even harder to identify the correct answer
on that, particularly when he never said much
about how the system will be used apps wise etc.
It's very easy under Windows 7.
Nope, not to move the My Documents folder alone, let alone
the other folders like Downloads and the mail folders.
Almost no data is stored anywhere but the "user" folder.
But it isnt a trivial exercise to move that and have
everything completely transparently keep all data
out of the OS and apps partition in the future.
And quite a bit of data isnt in the users folder anyway, most
obviously with Temporary Internet Files, Temp etc etc etc.
My entire "User" folder is not even on my "System" drive.
Sure, but it isnt a trivial exercise for the sort of simple user
that has to ask about whether to partition their hard drive
to do that, and no one actually suggested he do that anyway.
I would not recommend doing what I've done to the average Joe,
And that’s just as true of having a separate OS and apps partition
with no data in it.
It is for the sort of simple user that has to ask about
whether to partition their hard drive to do that.
I would consider myself just average,
You arent anything like that, whatever you consider yourself to be.
or these days, a little below.
Even sillier.
(Silly, new fangled OS! If TTY was good enough
for dad, why would I need anything else!)
It's the only reason SSDs are faster that HDs.
Wrong.
I'd call that a major.
More fool you.
On a single track, most HDs can match a SSD in data output,
But not for reads.
it's when they change tracks that they truely loose the race.
That’s just plain wrong.
You know of a free one that's a "non trivial exercise"?
Yep, for the sort of simple user that has to ask about
whether to partition their hard drive to do that.
Even my paid one, only a computer "geek" would know what folders
NOT to select to do a real system backup, but not get the data. No
you can't just exclude the "user" folder (system would not boot!).
That’s not right. The users folder would still be what it was before
the restore and so it would still boot fine after the restore.
True about Thunderbird, but that's because it has 2 sets of
data, and one is suppose to always be in the "user" area.
A document or a picture folder is very easy
to setup in Windows 7, using the "library".
But the sort of simple user that has to ask about whether
to partition their hard drive to do that doesn’t know that.
You can even set it as the default "save"
location, and all your docs would go there.
But that doesn’t necessarily determine where all the apps put the data.
Sure is, except as a tempory location for a "data" backup elsewhere!!!
Most likely failure is Power supply, then HD, then everything else, on a
desktop.
Not necessarily with some OSs.
And most desktop power supply failures don’t risk
your data, so the hard drive should be first on the list.
Laptop ... I'm not going there!
Its hardly ever the power supply with those. A power
supply failure doesn’t normally risk your data with those.
Theft is much more likely to be the reason to need the backup.
Then you've never used portableapps.
Doesn’t help with the OS config.
They have their own "data" area in the portable folder.
Just like a full blown system, but no data is added o the
system. True, there are some limits, like you can not use
file "opens with",
Which is why I don’t use it. I use that almost exclusively.
but if you do the "open" inside the program,
No thanks, much too clumsy.
it works just like any other program. I'd NEVER use it for MY system,
Me neither.
but it's still very user friendly for "visiting" someone
elses system when you don't have install rights.
I don’t ever want to do that.
Friend uses it ALL the time at work.
I don’t.
