Today, with great enthusiasm and quite emphatic,
=?Utf-8?B?UkxQ?= laid this spiel on an innocent readership
Thank you all for your responses, but I received 3 different
suggestions and am still left with the decision.
Let me ask this question: When I install other software/
programs, should they go onto the "boot disc" partition or
another drive partition without the OS on it?
"Squire" wrote:
I have separate partitions for my data. In my case, one for all
my pictures, mostly JPEG, and one for all non-graphics data, such
as music. I don't store any data whatsoever on C:\ except when
the app forces me to.
As to your question, with the trouble I frequently read about
with people trying to force apps and utilities to a separate
partition, I just go with The Force and let them install where
they please.
As to partition sizes, I have 40 gig reserved for Windoze SP2
right now and 25 gig for SP1 on my wife's older machine. My logic
is that it leaves plenty of room for further expansion of apps
and updates, perhaps a Windoze update, and also to allow maximum
room to efficiently defrag my primary partition. As that last, my
personal experience is that XP's defragger is dismal, yes, it
does defrag but it doesn't pull all the pieces together to make
one contiguous group of filled HD blocks. And, Norton Speed Disk
chokes and won't complete the job.
On my data partitions, I "defrag" those occasionally by writing
the content to a temp folder (with all the real folders under it)
on an external HD and reformat the partition. Takes less time,
and copying the data back seems to "compress" the blocks
reasonably well, although Windoze isn't at all logical about how
it copies, not even if I go to a DOS window and use the old-
fashioned-but-still-works-well Xcopy.
Hope this helps.
You will get many different recommendations. Personally the only reason