Logical/Physical disk drives

[Guest Alain Dekker]

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]

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.

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Regards

 

Ron Badour

MS MVP

Windows Desktop Experience

 

 

"Alain Dekker" <alain.dekker@NO.SPAM.loma.com> wrote in message

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> 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]

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

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> 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

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>> 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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