2006-10-27 13:11:53 · 10 answers · asked by Vision 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
One Partition is for you OS and Software, hardware storage locations. The the second one would be for your personal files and folders.. Which are the things you would want to protect in the event your Operating System crashes... But I highly recommend that all important data be saved on a removable disk.. and very important documents also be in Hard copy.. (printed Out)
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2006-10-27 13:21:12 · answer #1 · answered by Elaine B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The option to partition is presented during the format process. If it wasn't, your entire drive would be 1 partition. Now this is not all bad or good. Some other answers suggested putting the OS on one partition and your data on another. The original intent was to make the system run a little faster, and it did but at the speed of today's drives, unless you can count nanoseconds, maybe that's the way for you to go. The thing I'm not particularly impressed with about doing it that way is you have to reset all your data paths from what is normally defaulted to the root drive (c:) by most software. Not a difficult thing, just more to keep track of. As far as partitioning goes, making a separate partition for the virtual memory is a good idea. XP can be tuned this way, selecting where the pagefile is located (a separate partition) and how much "virtual memory" to allocate. The rule of thumb is 2.5 times the amount of ram you have. All in all, it's just a formatting option that you can use or just let it default to one partition.
2006-10-27 15:02:38 · answer #2 · answered by THE ONE 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you make at least 2 partitions (a C drive and a D drive), you can keep Windows on C, and your personal important stuff (reports, pictures, music) on D.
The OS (WIndows) will be the software that usually run into problems. So let's say you get a very bad virus. You can format your C drive and re-install Windows. And all your personal important stuff will be fine. Of course, if your hard drive is broken, that is a different story. Anyhows, I keep all my media stuff on other partitions.
2006-10-27 13:23:14 · answer #3 · answered by blazeimurill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to partition to install XP!!! but if u want to run more than 1 operating system u can have different partitions
2006-10-27 13:15:36 · answer #4 · answered by whitenight639 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be able to have 2 or more different computers. (well it feels like that) Say you have all your school work on one and then all your work on the other. Or you can have 2 different OS's. And if you get a virus on one partition it doesn't effect the other. I guess it all depends why you want it. Games on one Work the other. Or Movies
You get the picture.
Good Luck ;-)
2006-10-27 13:17:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to partition hard drives, before an operating system can be loaded. If you mean repartition your drive, the benefits are that your drive will be totally blank, and all of the "bits" of data that would be there if you hadn't repartitioned will be gone.
2006-10-27 13:15:34 · answer #6 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only significant benefit is that of keeping things better organized by storing different items in different partitions.
2006-10-27 13:13:57 · answer #7 · answered by karkov48 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do no longer bear in mind my XP desiring distinctive partitions. i do no longer think of that there is a income in any respect. i'm particular all it does is create a c: stress and a d: stress. the c stress will probable have XP and the D stress could be used for different issues alongside with, video games, classes, records, etc. its jsut a manner of staying prepared.
2016-11-26 00:02:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Partition helps to save your data in one partion whle formating the other. I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.Some hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
2006-10-27 23:32:11 · answer #9 · answered by blsruthi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well.. there is alot of things.. what if ur main disk went failaur and u need to make format for it.. u will lose everything.. and also when u make partitions for it.. it will be so easy for pc to find data faster
2006-10-27 13:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by EnD_LoVe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋