3D Vision?

[John Williamson]

My point remains: if you have a backup to external media, and don't
rely on a partitioning scheme, it doesn't matter where the fault was;
you would be protected.

<Head/Desk> It saves me a day per re-install doing it my way. My data is
unaffected by many of the problems that can be caused by an installation
going bad. The second partition doesn't have to be on the same HD, I
once ran XP on a computer with a 4Gig "SSD", and the data on a 32Gig SD
card. It worked well, and the data stayed intact no matter what I did to
the installed system, which needed re-installing many times before it
was working correctly. As a useful side effect, the computer with 2 HDs
has the same directory structure as the one with a single HD, so all the
Thunderbird and other profiles work on both systems without rewriting,
which helps keep both systems in sync.

The external backup goes without saying. The *only* benefit of using a
single partition on the system disc is that you don't need to partition
it when you first install the OS. The downsides are as I've explained.

 

[Ken Blake]

<Head/Desk> It saves me a day per re-install doing it my way. My data is
unaffected by many of the problems that can be caused by an installation
going bad. The second partition doesn't have to be on the same HD, I
once ran XP on a computer with a 4Gig "SSD", and the data on a 32Gig SD
card. It worked well, and the data stayed intact no matter what I did to
the installed system, which needed re-installing many times before it
was working correctly. As a useful side effect, the computer with 2 HDs
has the same directory structure as the one with a single HD, so all the
Thunderbird and other profiles work on both systems without rewriting,
which helps keep both systems in sync.

The external backup goes without saying.

It does *not* go without saying. Unfortunately there is a huge number
of people who think that backup to a second partition on their only
drive is just fine, or who think that partitioning the drive so that
Windows and data are on different partitions is adequate protection.

Again, I am glad to see that you are not one of those people, but your
message to which I replied made it sound like you were, and might
inadvertently convince some people that partitioning the drive so that
Windows and data are on different partitions is adequate protection.

I don't want to repeat myself again, so this is my last post on those
thread.