Poll: so do you guys sepeate OS & program into different partition ?

[jimmyhaha]

I post there but haven't receive a response yet.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=34&threadid=1099285

For those who seperate partition, how do u do it elegantly ?

I have some question on how to do it, pls read my link above & advice, thanks

 

[notfred]

no

 

[Kalvin00]

Originally posted by: notfred
no

 

No, but I keep media files on seperate drives from my OS and programs.

 

[jimmyhaha]

bump

 

[Frodolives]

Yes, and even though I backup my data frequently to removable media it's saved me quite a bit of time and effort

 

[her209]

I install everything on one partition.

 

[DanJ]

I used to but I just end up running out of space on a given partition then I have to redo the thing and it gets annoying.

So no, one partition. Folders are fine.

 

[PatboyX]

i always try...but its more of finding a smaller hard drive and making that OS + productivity tools and the other hd is for various crap like games and...well...mostly just games, i guess. whenever someone tells me to "try this" and send me a link for a download, it goes to hd2.

 

[conjur]

yes....makes reformatting to fix OS foul ups much easier!

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: jumpr
No, but I keep media files on seperate drives from my OS and programs.

 

[Kelvrick]

Yes. 20gb for windows and programs and stuff like that.

Rest of space goes to media. Everything important goes to this drive. If I gotta reformat, I still got all my important stuff. I never want to lose crap just because I shoved it in "My" documents that die when I reformat.

 

[SuperTool]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: jumpr
No, but I keep media files on seperate drives from my OS and programs.

 

[dighn]

no
if you reformat you need to reinstall the programs anyway

 

[TheCorm]

Originally posted by: DanJ
I used to but I just end up running out of space on a given partition then I have to redo the thing and it gets annoying.

So no, one partition. Folders are fine.

I used to have loads of partitions and it was annoying....now I have 3, 1 for windows, 1 for the rest of the space on that drive and a 3rd one is the full space on my 2nd hard drive.

I think it's worth it, all my data, progs, save files, anything I wanna keep are on the other two partitions, meaning I can re-format and wipe without any thought as to backing up stuff.

Yes you have to reinstall the programs but this was I keep settings etc....plus I have a bunch of programs that don't have system files so they don't need to be reinstalled anyway....i'm sure others probably do too.

 

[olds]

Yes
I make a 15 GB partition for the OS and use the rest for applications.
As was stated earlier, it makes formatting easier if something goes wrong.
I have a 120 GB as my main hdd and a 40 GB I use to back up to.

 

[yakko]

Small ones that are installed by default on every machine are with the OS. That is programs like WinRAR, Winamp, Nero and a couple others. Stuff like Games, Paint Shop Pro, Ulead Video Studio and others go on another partition.


Edit - Files like movies and music are on the second partition.

 

[Harvey]

Absolutely. Windows98 SE is on C: (FAT 16). All other programs on D:, (FAT 32), except a 500 MB on E: (FAT 16) for some essential legacy DOS programs and support. When Windows bites the big one, I can simply wipe the Windows directory and re-install my software.

Why FAT 16? Because it's faster, and more important, because Windows happens! I can use some of my old DOS Norton tools that only work in FAT 16 to fix it "under the hood" where Microsoft tries to keep you out. You can do amazing things to fix Windows from a pure DOS prompt.

 

[thirtythree]

I keep windows and programs on one partition and use the other for file storage. it makes reformatting a lot easier.

 

[vi edit]

Yes. Always. I don't care if I still have to reinstall the programs - many save files are still in the partition and you can just reinstall the app and have your data right back to normal.

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Yes. Even if you have to reinstall programs when you lose your OS, you can reinstall over the existing applications and hopefully preserve settings. If nothing else, at least save games.

 

[Hossenfeffer]

Yep, and will actually be re-organizing a bit when I add another drive.

I've got a few partitions:

1) Win2k
2) WinXP
3) Apps (for both, 2kApps and XPapps folder)
4) Media
5) Essential drivers, updates, basic disk images.

Makes things extremely easy when you need to reformat. You'll keep the majority of settings that you might normally forget about.

 

[IcemanJer]

Ah... only if Windows can do he symbolic/hard link think and make "Program Files" point to a different partition, and have "Documents & Settings" point somewhere else.

 

[Staples]

Yes and I have for a long time. I just hate when Windows refuses to boot and there is application data that you wanted to backup.

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: SuperTool

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: jumpr
No, but I keep media files on seperate drives from my OS and programs.

Yup. All mp3s, pictures, documents and anything else I'd want to keep during a reformat is on a different partition or drive.