Revenent wrote:A good reason to partition:
My anti-virus just took out my system last weekend - I couldn't do Safe OS, I couldn't do Recovery Console, heck, I couldn't even do repair installation.
Soooooo - wipe C:.
Guess what - my profiles, My Documents, downloads, etc, etc were all on other partitions.
Soooooo - wipe the OS partition, install OS, and go through the hell of installing all the apps again.
Buuuuuut, no loss of data! (Short of application settings.)
I do something similar with mine; I use windows built in backup utility on my 2 gig windows drive and do complete backup, including the registry, to another partition. Then, if/when Windows goes nuts, I wipe C: and do a minimal install of Windows. As soon as I can boot into windows I restore the backup, and I'm good to go. Total time, about a half hour.
morphine wrote:Although repartitioning the drive after installation is perfectly possible, the issue here is your already-installed programs, games, etc. I'm afraid that if you took those and moved them off to a different partition, you'd be left with a _very_ messed-up system.
I have done this...I used Norton WinDoctor (3.0) in manual mode. It took a while, but the results were good.
*NOTE* everything referenced here is/was on Windows 98 SE.