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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: [TMG] TMG data on second partition
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:24:59 -0600
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Rick Van Dusen wrote:

[snip]
> 3. I sincerely hope you've partitioned your hard drive into at least two
> partitions and made the second one data only and have no data on C:.
> This makes your data far less vulnerable to drive corruption which WILL
> (not MAY) occur on the OS/applications drive. Also, it makes data backup
> and retrieval much simpler. (Be sure to set your My Documents location
> to the second drive.)
[snip]

Rick:

I would be interested in the source for this information. I worked as
the Manager of Computer Operations for an electronics manufacturer for
over a decade, and never saw a case of drive corruption of the O/S
partition *only* such as you describe. Electromechanical drive failures,
yes, of course. User munged folders, don't get me started. But
corruption of the O/S partition with a second partition still intact, no.

We didn't have a high percentage of our drives partitioned; perhaps a
few dozen at any one time. We did have a lot of drives that came with a
vendor-created second partition. That's pretty common these days. My
Lenovo has a 133 GB physical drive; the D: partition uses 30.3 GB, of
which 28.7 are free. What a waste. [insert "old geek" story]

Your points on backup and retrieval simplification are well taken, and
for most users a good, VERIFIED, backup system is much more important
than protecting against drive corruption. I have a C:\data folder in
which I put *all* my user-created information. But it does not require a
second partition to get the same benefits. On the other hand, putting
all your working data on a reliable external hard drive does protect
against problems with the O/S drive. (Not on a thumb drive! at least,
not yet.)

Darrell


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