Guest Alain Dekker Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Logical disks: Does it help to partition your 40 Gb C:\ into two 20 Gb partitions (C:\ and D:\)? If I had an application that only wrote to D:\ (and lets say, for arguments sake, that the app writes frequently to disk), would the partition help reduce the likelihood of OS corruption? Would it reduce disk fragmentation? Physical disks: On a related note, does having two physical drives help with the above? Presumably with file fragmentation it would, but what about helping with OS corruption? Thanks, Alain
Guest Ron Badour Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Re: Logical/Physical disk drives OS corruption--I don't see how it could help. Fragmentation--it would help keep the C: drive from fragmenting. Same for physical drives. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP Windows Desktop Experience "Alain Dekker" <alain.dekker@NO.SPAM.loma.com> wrote in message news:ezglvyA6IHA.2240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Logical disks: > > Does it help to partition your 40 Gb C:\ into two 20 Gb partitions (C:\ > and D:\)? If I had an application that only wrote to D:\ (and lets say, > for arguments sake, that the app writes frequently to disk), would the > partition help reduce the likelihood of OS corruption? Would it reduce > disk fragmentation? > > Physical disks: > > On a related note, does having two physical drives help with the above? > Presumably with file fragmentation it would, but what about helping with > OS corruption? > > Thanks, > Alain > >
Guest Alain Dekker Posted July 17, 2008 Posted July 17, 2008 Re: Logical/Physical disk drives Those are the answers I thought were the most logical and therefore likely. Thanks very much, Alain "Ron Badour" <Sorry@NoAddressBuddy.com> wrote in message news:OZAGASB6IHA.5012@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > OS corruption--I don't see how it could help. Fragmentation--it would > help keep the C: drive from fragmenting. Same for physical drives. > -- > Regards > > Ron Badour > MS MVP > Windows Desktop Experience > > > "Alain Dekker" <alain.dekker@NO.SPAM.loma.com> wrote in message > news:ezglvyA6IHA.2240@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Logical disks: >> >> Does it help to partition your 40 Gb C:\ into two 20 Gb partitions (C:\ >> and D:\)? If I had an application that only wrote to D:\ (and lets say, >> for arguments sake, that the app writes frequently to disk), would the >> partition help reduce the likelihood of OS corruption? Would it reduce >> disk fragmentation? >> >> Physical disks: >> >> On a related note, does having two physical drives help with the above? >> Presumably with file fragmentation it would, but what about helping with >> OS corruption? >> >> Thanks, >> Alain >> >> > >
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