'Why should I partitioning my hard disk drives?"

[smth]

There are many reasons to use hard disk partition software like Acronis Disk Director Suite. They all come down to this: Partitioning the hard disk makes your life a lot easier and sometimes saves your data and your neck.

Disk partitioning:

Limits Accidental or Deliberate Damage To Your Data
With Acronis Disk Director Suite, you can separate your applications into separate partitions and put their data in other partitions. If an application becomes corrupted or is accidentally deleted, it is easier to contain the damage in a single partition. Hard drive partition recovery is faster than having to recover the entire hard disk.

Increases Security
Encryption is one of the fundamental tools to protection yourself against theft, corruption or compromise of critical data on your computer. But encryption slows your computer down. With disk partitioning software, you can encrypt just those partitions that need protection and let the other parts of your system run unencrypted, and hence faster.

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Originaly from http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13499983

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[1badtech]

Originally Posted by smth

Originaly from http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13499983

To moderators: is it ok that i'm posting info from other forum or not ? And what should i do if i have some useful info from other forum.
Just i don't want any problems, so i'd like to know the best way of posting useful info.

Best regards, smth.

I always make 2 partitions. 1 for windows and a 2nd partition for my programs and data files. The nice thing about keeping them separate is that your windows partition doesn't get fragmented as you use your computer. When you defrag your data partition, you don't have to worry about the page file or any file being open. Your system will run a lot better too.

[John Steven]

Partitioning hard discs is cheap insurance against something going awry.

My personal preference is to have the Operating system and software on a partition by itself, photos on another partition,video files on another, and all downloads and patches on yet another.

By doing it this way, I am able to make a recovery image (Acronis True Image) on removable media (DVD) of just my OS and Software installations after a clean install, (I need not tell you what a pain a complete re-install is) should my hard drive fail.

I never download e mail from any provider on my machines either, so there is never a chance of losing any important e mails should I encounter a hard drive failure.

I make periodic copies to DVD of the other partitions in the event of failure also.

I recently had a hard drive fail, and using my Acronis recovery DVD I was up-n-running again in just under 20 minutes after partitioning the drive (the only thing that needed updating was my anti-virus)