Partitioning new HDD for Win 7?

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:45:44 -0400, Death wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote in message

> news:aepvy5h8ema1$.1ak2af74m4hw3$.dlg@40tude.net...

>> On 17 Jul 2010 21:59:10 +0200, Death wrote:

>>

>>> Gene E. Bloch wrote:

>>>

>>>> On 16 Jul 2010 21:28:41 +0200, Death wrote:

>>>>

>>>>> Bill Bradshaw wrote:

>>>>>

>>>>>> I also partition mine into separate partitions for OS, Programs, and

>>>>>> Data.

>>>>>> Hold over from the old days. I definitely would recommend to

>>>>>> everybody that

>>>>>> you keep the data you create on a separate partition. Makes it very

>>>>>> easy to

>>>>>> backup all your important files and in my mind that partition is less

>>>>>> likely

>>>>>> to get corrupted (I don't know why so don't ask me :-).).

>>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>> That data partition is not a backup.

>>>>> Any partition on a failing HDD is lost.

>>>>>

>>>>> Any corruption of the OS partition also render the program partition

>>>>> useless.

>>>>

>>>> You should reread what Bill Bradshaw wrote.

>>>>

>>>

>>> Sure...what part of the data being on a separate partition makes it

>>> safer? less corruptable ? any better than a user folder?

>>

>> I said re *read* what he wrote. "Makes it very easy to backup all your

>> important files". Not that he's using it for a backup, but that it's easy

>> to back up. Got it yet?

>>

>

> It's not easier, moron.

> No easier than saving all your data into some user folder on the system

> partition using a directory stucture that organizes data into a user

> friendly hierarchy.

> Get that, moron?

> Backup-wise, copy-wise, finding-wise, it's no fuckin easier.

>

>> And here's what he said about corruptibility: "in my mind that partition

>> is

>> less likely to get corrupted (I don't know why so don't ask me :-).)"

>>

>> What part of superstition (which he admitted by clear implication and with

>> a smiley) don't you understand?

>>

>

> It makes him an idiot, like yourself, if you think data partitions on the

> same HDD as the OS make any fucking sense what-so-ever.

> It's fuckin stupid, dumbass thinking.

> Like fuckin making a partition just for programmes...fuckin stupid.

>

> A data partition on a seperate HDD... that at least makes fuckin sense.

>

> Geez...hope you dummies don't get paid for this stupidity.

Ah, Death, your post speaks for itself.

Luckily for you, I don't plonk posters.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)