Should I Keep My Partition?

[The Devil's Advocate©]

I just bought a Sony Vaio yesterday. It has a 120g drive and it is
divided into 2 partitions 14g and 92g. I wasn't expecting it to be
partitioned out the box and was wondering what would be the rationale
in keeping it this way? Because I'm considering just getting rid of
the second partition. Can anyone tell me why I would need it?

 

[Clemens von Musil]

The Devil's Advocate© wrote:

Hi,

question of flavor, I think. I always configure at least two partitions on
windows systems. If the system goes completely nuts, I can format the
system partition and reinstall windows without spending hours in data
saving.

Clemens

 

[Mike Walsh]

Use the first partition for system and applications. The OS and applications will load faster when these files are contained within the first 14 GB than if they get scattered over the whole drive. Use the larger partition for data.

 

[polly tito]

Use the first partition for system and applications. The OS and applications
will load faster when these files are contained within the first 14 GB than
if they get scattered over the whole drive. Use the larger partition for
data.

I just bought a Sony Vaio yesterday. It has a 120g drive and it is
divided into 2 partitions 14g and 92g. I wasn't expecting it to be
partitioned out the box and was wondering what would be the rationale
in keeping it this way? Because I'm considering just getting rid of
the second partition. Can anyone tell me why I would need it?

I've just formatted are reset a sony viao which was so beset with multiple
virii that all files were beyond rescue, those files that had been saved on
the 'storage' partition were safe and intact...keep it and use it as 'my
documents'

polly