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Question

Easy Partition Manager question

May 14, 2012 11:39PM PDT

I'm helping a friend setup a brand new Samsung laptop. Upon first boot, it presents a panel for Easy Partition Manager suggesting that the drive be partitioned into a C: and D: so that data can be stored in a "safer" location than the operating system. It wants to split the drive into two partitions as a default, let you adjust the size of the partitions, or just use the drive as one partition.

Is there really any benefit to splitting the drive? There is some safety in that if the OS gets corrupted it could make recovery a bit easier but if the drive itself goes bad it wouldn't matter anyway. Would splitting it affect performance? Also, when installing apps that default to saving files on C:, would they have to manually be changed to point their saves to the D: partition?

Would appreciate any thoughts on this.

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YOUR CHOICE!!!
May 15, 2012 3:04AM PDT

I can't make this any clearer. There are those that want the OS and apps on one partition, their files on another and frankly I find that too fiddly. So I make it one partition and put my stuff in my folders.

After watching others try the multiple partition schemes and then watching them fail to restore "just the OS and Apps" I don't see why to do that.

To top it off, if the OS gets corrupted Samsung does not supply the needed OS DVD for you to fix the OS partition and leave your files alone. So that's a fail for that idea.

--> I guess you can try it again but why is there any question about the moderators second favorite quote here?

"We only lose what we don't backup."
Bob

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partition
May 16, 2012 5:11PM PDT

"We only lose what we don't backup."

absolutely.