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To: Ken Adams who wrote (47471)	8/26/2005 9:46:39 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Ken, I'm not the one to answer that "What is the reason to partition a hard drive these days?". Maybe a partition fan will explain.

To: Ken Adams who wrote (47471)	8/26/2005 9:58:03 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 110626

What is the reason to partition a hard drive these days? I haven't done that since 3 or 4 computers ago. For some reason this made me laugh because "in the old days" we used to partition 100 meg drives to run Netware. However, yes, there are two reasons I can think of to use partitions these days: 1) when running two operating systems (e.g. Windows for "normal" tasks and Linux for serving... although personally I prefer and used IIS with .net), and 2) if you have two hard drives where you want one to act as a mirror for the other (I did do that on my old server). - Jeff

To: Ken Adams who wrote (47471)	8/26/2005 11:16:02 AM
From: Eric L	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Rationale for Partitioning << What is the reason to partition a hard drive these days? I haven't done that since 3 or 4 computers ago. >> I partition for the same reason I've always partitioned. Primarily for organizational structure of files, folders, and directories, easy synchronization between computers, backing up key files, and particularly the capability to copy and/or move or copy files from drive to drive in a file manager, platform to platform, and ease the task of migrating to a new platform. - Eric -

To: Ken Adams who wrote (47471)	8/26/2005 12:48:15 PM
From: Esteban	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Some gamers partition for performance, although the gains they achieve are probably not noticeable. I partition for backup purposes. OS and programs can not be copied in the conventional way. If you want to back these up, the most common way to accomplish this is with a partition imaging program. Since these programs make an exact copy of the entire partition, it is inefficient to image the entire hard drive, when regular data files are more easily just copied. So to keep things simple, I think two partitions is easiest to manage. One smaller one for OS and programs, the rest for data.