--- Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net> wrote:
> If you're backing up 40 Gb from your C drive, you need to do some
> pruning. With that amount of data, I'd recommend two drives, a
> relatively small C drive and a relatively large D drive. Have all
> your programs and application data on the C drive and your documents,
> images and whatever else on the D drive. That way, you can image only
> the C drive, which is by far the most critical since it contains the
> operating system and app data files, and do simple backups on the D
> drive which is much less critical, since it contains files which are
> not dependent on each other such as the registry, etc.
A slightly different point of view.
Have *three* partitions:
C:\ which has the operating system ONLY
D:\ which has all your application PROGRAMS (like MS office)
E:\ which has all your data
Don't install any applications in C:\Program Files - install them in D:\. Most
of the time you will have a choice - sometimes you do not.
Then you only *really* need to back up the E:\ drive. Operating system and
applications can be re-installed from original media, but your user data is
irreplaceable.
I have moved my "My Documents" folder to the E:\ (data) partition (right-click
on the icon [Properties] and change the target). I save my Quicken data on
that partition as well. I back up my DX4WIN and Writelog data to that
partition.
I have a separate partition for photos, but that's another story.
73 - Jim AD1C
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