Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Partition Was In)
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It is surprising how strongly some people feel about the issue of partitioning or not. Voices are raised — faces become a bit redder — language becomes a bit more colorful. If you are from the school of thought that partitioning is absolutely not necessary, please leave a comment at the bottom of the page. Your point of view is valuable and should be considered.
This presentation, however, will favor partitioning. There will be some of us who will remember the days when, for example, a 3 GB hard drive on your laptop was considered to be “state of the art,” and the cost of that machine was several thousand dollars. Now, that seems archaic, and the hard drives increasingly grow in size — and some are partitioned.
One of the best arguments on the side of partitioning was given by Mitch Tulloch, in an article for Microsoft. The three major points that Mitch basis his argument are:
- partitioning organizes work
- partitioning safeguards the data
- partitioning increases the computer’s performance
One of the points is that Mitch makes is: “At the end of each month, I copy last month’s Archive subfolders to CD, label it by date, and put it somewhere safe. That way I have last month’s backup ready if both my hard disks fail from a lightning bolt hitting my office, or my computer is infected with a virus, or a thief steals my computer.” Needless to say, the security programs should be run to make certain that the backup is not infected.
One of the most popular and well-used partitioning programs is Acronis Disk Director Suite. It has won industry recommendations and users’ praise.
The Acronis Disk Management and Partitioning program is easy to use and effective. It supports Windows (NT 4, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista). And, until July 22, 2009, the Acronis people are offering our readers an amazing thirty percent (30%) discount.
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3 Comments
Bill
July 16th, 2009
at 7:26am
I got my first real computer in November 1989. It came with a 30mb hard drive that I thought I would never fill up. It wasn’t long before I bought a 40mb, for $385, and partitioned it with fdisk as I installed it. I was taught to partition back when partition magic was the best thing around. I even used fdisk to partition new disks.
I still partition my disks. It almost blows my mind that the partitions I use now are at least 10 times as big as my first hard disk. So, yes, I am a firm believer in partitioning.
Bill Hudgins, Texas
Bob
July 16th, 2009
at 8:26am
I do a fair amount of work helping students with their computer problems in this college town, and let’s face it: if you run windows, eventually you are going to have to reload. Since so many students either don’t hav the forethought, knowledge, or money to put into an external device or simply backup their data, I always tellthem that we are going to partition their drive in order to provide their data to have a place to sit in case they need too reload again (which seems to be likely). Yes, it’s true that in the case of a hard drive failure it could render the data unrecoverable, but that’s why I also encourage them to ask their folks for money to buy an external hard drive or flash drive. Preparing for both situations just makes good sense in the long run.
Lyall McNeish
July 16th, 2009
at 4:06pm
Partitioning is a left-over from the good ol’ days when DOS programs ran better on their own partition. With the current costs of HDD’s it is far better to use a separate drive for personal files, temp files and pagefile.sys. These speed improvements are not seen if they are all on the same physical drive that has been partitioned.
I often have to ‘repair’ clients computers who are low on disk space on C: by moving files to another partition on the same drive.