Flying Fox wrote:The kind of protection that you were referring to applies only to an OS software problem hosing the system partition. It won't protect a malware wiping out your other partitions nor it will protect in the case of a head crash (that spans multiple partitions). Nowadays, it is more for data management where you can format+reinstall the OS faster without doing too much back up.
yes, this is what I meant by protection. sorry for not being more clear. with a partitioned drive, I had all my data on the other partitions and only the OS and some installed apps on the main partition. that way, if the OS got hosed, I could just pull another image to the main partition. or if i wanted to reinstall the OS fresh, I could just wipe drive C and leave all my data on the other partitions intact.
the idea that I have to move everything off the drive to have a clean installation just sucks. especially since there are always files that are in some folder that i forgot to move and it gets erased during the format. when they're on a separate partition, I have less worry about deleting important stuff.