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Advantages/Disadvantages of Partitioning a Drive

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I have a 100GB hard drive in my Win XP Pro desktop. I use an external 250GB drive for backups, and am wondering if there would be any advantages to partitioning my internal hard drive. I understand that some people like to keep their OS and programs on one partition, and their data on another parti…

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I strongly recommend you to do the partitioning. It makes sense. Advantages Formatting Convenience - If you ever need to format, you do not have to copy your data out first since it resides on another partition. You can just format the OS partition.…

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