I think its strange because surely if you had seperate drives and contracted a virus, it would be easier to locate and isolate it from the rest of the drives??
2006-09-16 20:41:48 · 3 answers · asked by bruvvamoff 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I have 2 hard drives, a 300Gb partitioned 100 for XP with NTFS and 200 partitioned with FAT32, the reason, I also have an 80Gb with a good Linux distro on it so if (sorry when) XP crashes I still have all my essential data on my 2nd partition.
The explanation for the FAT32 system is Linux can read/write to that and doesn't get affected by any Windows virus and if I put any data on it via Linux XP can also read the new file.
2006-09-16 21:17:44 · answer #1 · answered by David Computer Guy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The advantage of multiple drives is to allow for greater storage capacity and/or to allow you the advantage of storing specific information on a specified drive. (e.g. drive C for operating system only, Next hard drive for gaming, movies or whatever and so on for all the ahrd drives) i have 4 hard drive in my computer to allow for specific storage of information.
Unfortunately if you contract a virus on any drive (depending on the virus) it can and will in most cases affect all drives. you need to make sure that you have a good anti-virus programme installed and also make sure that you keep it up to date.
2006-09-16 20:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by ianrose01 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are using windows,the OS performance is based on drive C: capasity.So if you have mutiple of drives it' better beause you are not going to dump only C drive.
2006-09-16 20:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by tk2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋