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From: Martha Colburn <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG data on second partition
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:25:23 -0700
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I am a belt and suspenders person. I back up on an external hard drive AND to an off-site back-up service (Mozy). This is in addition to the data on the O/S drive. AND I check and verify my O/S drive at frequent intervals to see if I can pick-up on any pending disasters before they happen.

I too don't see any advantage to partitioning a hard drive. When the HD goes west, the whole thing goes. I do like to put my data in a separate folder (like My Documents) and burn that to a CD now and then.

Marty

On Jan 24, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Darrell A. Martin wrote:

> 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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