Why do proprietary machines use one partition?

[ByTor]

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I'm not going to address the merits of one partition vs two,
three, or some other number, but I wanted to point out that the
*only* real solution to the potential problem of "losing ALL
their data" is by putting in place and using a good backup
strategy.

Having data in a separate partition still leaves it vulnerable to
hard drive crashes, user errors, severe power glitches like
nearby lightning strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the
computer.

Without a good backup, stored externally to the computer, there
is no real protection. If you think that a partitioning scheme
substantially increases your security in this regard, you're
kidding yourself. Whatever the merits of having multiple
partitions, this isn't it.

Thank you Ken good point indeed........I read a lot of issues in these
groups to get a general feel though and it just amazes me how many
issues deal with "How do I get my data back."

There never really is a guarantee to any data, but I feel the ease of
recovering it in a quicker manner is most appealing.....You are very
correct though, user errors is what would concern me, and some consumers
mentalities "that it worked good before you worked on it so it must be
your fault" is not appealing.....Oy Vay!!!

Thanks again Ken............

 

[ByTor]

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The reason is simple: Users are stupid.

1) Most users would store everything on C: anyway. This would result in
users running out of usable space well before the drive is physically
out of space.

2) Changing the default profile directory location to D: would help the
above (since a lot of people use "My Documents"), but even so, you'd run
into cases where the user runs out of space to install more
applications, but has plenty of "data" space. Unless/unless there
becomes an easy way to reallocate space between the two, it would result
in a lot of support calls.

(And yes, Partition Magic and similar tools can get the job done. Who
would like to volunteer to walk my grandmother through Partition Magic
over the phone, then to go over to her house and recover after it
inevitably fails -- It might be reliably 99.999% of the time, but with
millions of PCs being sold every year, that's a HUGE failure rate)

I appreciate your honesty....very much. I never quite wanted to put it
that way but.............. ;0)

Anyway, you're correct as some posters also mentioned, most users would
just go to the defaults.........

I'm still trying to get my Mother of 65 to correctly pay her bills
online just using the simple ctrl c/ctrl v keys for copying/pasting her
username & password......Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Thanks again

 

[Ken Blake]

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Thank you Ken good point indeed........I read a lot of issues
in these
groups to get a general feel though and it just amazes me how
many
issues deal with "How do I get my data back."

Yes, unfortunately many people don't realize the importance of
backup.

There never really is a guarantee to any data, but I feel the
ease of
recovering it in a quicker manner is most appealing.....You are
very
correct though, user errors is what would concern me, and some
consumers mentalities "that it worked good before you worked on
it so
it must be your fault" is not appealing.....Oy Vay!!!

Thanks again Ken............

You're welcome. Always glad to help.