Partitioning
Can anyone tell me the advantages or disadvantages of partitioning a drive? I always partition a large drive into 3 or 4 partitions. My nephew never partitions a drive not matter how big it is. He just installs them and makes folders in them to store his stuff. I thought by partitioning a large drive into smaller partitions it will be faster to defrag when you have to. Well he never defrages at all. When his computer starts running slow he just formats the OS and starts again. I am starting to wonder myself about defraging. Last time I defraged using O&O defrag I got "invalid partition table" after the defrag and had to reformat and install windows again. I don't know if the defrag did this or if the drive is starting to go south on me? I never had this problem using Diskeeper so I might go back to that program again. But is there really and advantage gained by partitioning into smaller partitions? Thanks for any reply....
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Generally I do not recommend any additional partitions because there's no telling how you're going to use the recreational space. Just leave it as one big glob and organize it all under folders.
As for defragging, I admit that I have not in years. I don't really see the point in it since I do very little file shuffling. For your issue, I'd chalk it up to a fluke or a crappy program.
For C:\, where Windows is held, the only other files on that partition are programs and updates that would not let me install them anywhere else. For example, I have Adobe CS3 Master Collection installed, and while the majority of the 10GB Photoshop & Dreamweaver install is on D:\, it dumps a ton of files to C:\ as well. All my games go to D:\Games, all my applications to D:\Programs, all my files to D:\Pictures-Misc and and all my archives to D:\Zips, so on and so forth.
Even after months and months of usage, the C:\ drive still has 1GB left, which is plenty.