ON PARTITIONING HARD-DRIVES _______
This is presented as true to the best recollection and is offered
for guidance with NO warranty expressed or implied.
Your mileage may vary.
In olden times hard-drives generally contained just one partition
which consumed the whole entire hard-drive. Eventually drives
were made bigger than the software could support and the concept
of dividing the drive into pieces or partitions became necessary
to make use of these bigger devices. As the software has improved
this is no longer necessary, but it may be convenient.
Considering as an analogy the paper office.......
Rather than keeping all paper sheets in one stack,
the use of separate file folders for papers of a like association
make things more manageable.
Rather than keeping all folders in one stack,
the use of separate drawers for folders of a like association
makes things more manageable.
oEtc. Etc. Etc.
And so it is that having multiple partitions -- known as drives
C:, D:, E:, F:, etc. -- to separate files and folders by
associative function
can likewise make things more manageable -- even on the same
physical drive. Even though it may no longer be
necessary for technical reasons, partitioning
may still be a good idea for manageability
considerations.
Appropriate separations onto different partions might be
prudently considered such as:
C: - Operating system
D: - Operating system support utilities
and TEMP files and PAGE/SWAP files
E: - Personally-specific data and applications
F: - InterNet-related Browsers, E-Mail mangers, attached files
G: - Office-related Applications
H: - Photo-related Applications
I: - Graphics-related Applications
J: - Scan-related Applications
K: - Unrelated Junk
L: - Test and Play stuff
Doing this essentially offers an additional level of hierarchic
separation and kindred association.
Such separations and associations can also make BackUps
easier to take and to Recover -- and thus more manageable.
In order to make best use of such separations,
when applications are installed, then good use should be made
of specifying the folder/location of the application's files.
E.G., if the application appears destined for
"C:\PROGRAM FILES\PHOTOSHOP\"
then it might be changed to
"H:\PHOTOSHOP\"
to place the files accordingly.
UNfortunately many programs still put a LOT of files onto
the C: drive, but at least the above will help.
Keep Well Organized !
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