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Hard drive partitioning

MadpandaMadpanda suburbs west of chicagoRegistered User regular
edited June 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Aside from splitting up a drive by content type, do multiple partitions on 1 drive provide any benefit? I remember there used to be some logic to doing it, I can't remember why though. I will be getting a large drive soon that will be storing mainly video, I was thinking of just making it 1 partition formatted to the max cluster size. This will be on a Vista64 machine.

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  • CmdPromptCmdPrompt Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    For Vista, if you keep your data on one partition, you won't lose it if you ever have to format the partition the OS is on if you get a virus/upgrade/etc.

    Programs will have to be reinstalled and files on the second partition are still vulnerable to infection however.

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  • MadpandaMadpanda suburbs west of chicagoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yea i already have OS on a separate drive from games etc. This is a completely different drive that would just store video, wondering about the merits of partitioning that.

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  • CmdPromptCmdPrompt Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I can't think of any benefits to partitioning it, in that case.

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