Partitions in 2006

[LifeStealer]

I used to reformat my hard drive every year on average, but these were sub 100gig drives. Yearly formats were standard practice. Now a days with my 200-400gig drives I split them up into mulitple partitions to make things easier to manage. Because of this is it still standard practice to reformat once a year?

 

[LifeStealer]

No one?

 

[lopri]

I didn't know it was a standard to reformat once a year? It's totally up to the user and his/her usage, IMO. Yeah and partitioning indeed makes things easier. I have 2 disks and 4 partitions (2 on each) as following:

Disk 0
C: Windows 16GB
D: Programs/Games 54GB

Disk 1
E: Pagefiles/Temp files/Spool(Printing) 2GB
F: Documents (My Documents folder mounted) 68GB

And 2 x 160GB external disks for back-up and media files. I only reformat/partition the disk 0.

 

[LifeStealer]

Originally posted by: lopri
I didn't know it was a standard to reformat once a year?

Standard practice for optimum performance/killing Windows' errors/junk files Windows' thinks it needs