win 7 partitions
Dr.Dan
c and the other half as the d drive. For me thats fine, I will keep an eye
on things and manage where data goes and that kind of thing. But my
daughter just bought a win 7 64 bit laptop and it came partitioned c, d and
e. The d partition is for recovery data. Thing is she would never manage
the drives. If the c drive filled up she would not know to go to the next
partition.
So my questions are why do the manufacturers do this, is there a practical
reason? Should I resize the c partition on her machine to eliminate the e
drive? Thanks for your help.
Desk Rabbit
Far better to teach her how to manage her data storage properly, I mean
it's not rocket science and I assume she knows how to store other items
correctly?
chuckcar
news:Xns9E1520C...@216.196.97.131:
> I have a win 7 64 bit os which came with the drive partitioned. Half
> as the c and the other half as the d drive. For me thats fine, I will
> keep an eye on things and manage where data goes and that kind of
> thing. But my daughter just bought a win 7 64 bit laptop and it came
> partitioned c, d and e. The d partition is for recovery data. Thing is
> she would never manage the drives. If the c drive filled up she would
> not know to go to the next partition.
That's what backups are for. A hard drive is *never* a vaild backup
device.
> So my questions are why do the manufacturers do this, is there a
> practical reason? Should I resize the c partition on her machine to
> eliminate the e drive? Thanks for your help.
Do that and she'll have problems. Bad ones. However, the one question I
do have is what *physical* drives are C: D: and E: *on*?
--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )
Desk Rabbit
> "Dr.Dan"<nospam.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9E1520C...@216.196.97.131:
>
>> I have a win 7 64 bit os which came with the drive partitioned. Half
>> as the c and the other half as the d drive. For me thats fine, I will
>> keep an eye on things and manage where data goes and that kind of
>> thing. But my daughter just bought a win 7 64 bit laptop and it came
>> partitioned c, d and e. The d partition is for recovery data. Thing is
>> she would never manage the drives. If the c drive filled up she would
>> not know to go to the next partition.
>
> That's what backups are for. A hard drive is *never* a vaild backup
> device.
Good old chucktard, answering a different question.
>
>> So my questions are why do the manufacturers do this, is there a
>> practical reason? Should I resize the c partition on her machine to
>> eliminate the e drive? Thanks for your help.
>
> Do that and she'll have problems. Bad ones. However, the one question I
> do have is what *physical* drives are C: D: and E: *on*?
>
How many laptops have you seen with more than one hard drive?
Meat Plow
Inform your daughter of the D partition and leave the drive alone.
--
Live Fast, Die Young and Leave a Pretty Corpse
Meat Plow
> "Dr.Dan" <nospam.com> wrote in
> news:Xns9E1520C...@216.196.97.131:
>
>> I have a win 7 64 bit os which came with the drive partitioned. Half as
>> the c and the other half as the d drive. For me thats fine, I will keep
>> an eye on things and manage where data goes and that kind of thing. But
>> my daughter just bought a win 7 64 bit laptop and it came partitioned
>> c, d and e. The d partition is for recovery data. Thing is she would
>> never manage the drives. If the c drive filled up she would not know to
>> go to the next partition.
>
> That's what backups are for. A hard drive is *never* a vaild backup
> device.
What is your preferred *vaild* 'backup device' for me? I want to backup
about 500 gigabytes of data. I don't have a lot of money.
§ñühw¤£f
External drives dont count?
--
www.skepticalscience.com|www.youtube.com/officialpeta
cageprisoners.com|www.snuhwolf.9f.com|www.eyeonpalin.org
_____ ____ ____ __ /\_/\ __ _ ______ _____
/ __/ |/ / / / / // // . . \\ \ |\ | / __ \ \ \ __\
_\ \/ / /_/ / _ / \ / \ \| \| \ \_\ \ \__\ _\
/___/_/|_/\____/_//_/ \_@_/ \__|\__|\____/\____\_\
chuckcar
news:pan.2010.10...@lmao.lol.lol:
Then you've got a problem. Either with your lifestyle Arthur, or with
what you're deciding to include. Time to put a Dent in that number.
freemont
Ummm... probably the one inside the laptop, Chuck.
--
⁂ "Because all you of Earth are idiots!"
⁂ Beware the 24hoursupport tards:
⁂ http://24hoursupport-tards.info
¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·-> ※freemont※ <-·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯
thanatoid
news:4cbbd7ed$0$31527$c3e8da3$c14f...@news.astraweb.com:
> On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:12:06 -0500, "Dr.Dan" <nospam.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I have a win 7 64 bit os which came with the drive
>>partitioned. Half as the c and the other half as the d
>>drive. For me thats fine, I will keep an eye on things and
>>manage where data goes and that kind of thing.
>
> I also have win 7 64 bit which came with only C: drive,
> which I formatted into C: D: E:
>
> I always install the OS to C: then programs to D: and music
> to E:
<snip>
"Programs" to D, huh? The /usual/ programs you think you need,
like Office? Or old-style well-written utilities which do not
install anything anywhere else besides their own directory
(sorry, folder) and do not write anything to the registry?
Didn't think so.
I'd /love/ to see how your system works after you have to
reformat and reinstall Windows.
Yes, it WILL happen.
--
"Anytime I hear the word "culture", I reach for my iPad."
- 21st Century Humanoid
Meat Plow
Ahhh OK. So I can't backup 500 GB?
Problem is all my data is A/V which in raw format notoriously consumes
gigabytes like you consume liquor. But I cannot delete the raw A/V files
because they all represent works in progress.
Are you sure there isn't a low cost solution for backing up my data? I
thought a 1 TB eSATA drive might be a *vaild* solution since it would not
be powered up except when processing a backup.
It would seem (at least to me) that a live copy plus one on non-spinning
media would give me enough redundancy since the chances of both failing
are pretty much non-existent.
Meat Plow
> Honestly? In your business, the pros generally feel that unless you have
> something stored in at least three places, it doesn't really exist. At
> least one of the three places has to be another physical location. You
> don't want to be wiped out by fire, flood or theft.
>
> One backup is certainly far better than none, but I wouldn't consider
> the material very secure at all.
Ok well I'll purchase an eSATA and a removable, backup to both and store
the removable in my bank deposit box. Or should I make sure I have one
also in another bank in case it gets robbed or flooded or burns down?
Dr.Dan
Thanks to all, my simple question seems to have raised quite a few
responses. Bucky Breeders response answered all my questions. Way back
when I was useing win 95 the advice was to partition to make things
eaisier on windows, then with xp I was told to leave everything in 1
partition. And I never saw a manufacturer partition a drive. (except a
small hidden recovery partition)Now I see it on these 2 laptops, (1 hard
drive in each) so I was wondering.
Again thanks to all.
freemont
They're Acers, right? Acers turn up like this a lot.
It's a smart thing to do, except nobody ever knows what to do with it.
Desk Rabbit
> Desk Rabbit wrote:
>> On 18/10/2010 16:23, chuckcar wrote:
>>> "Dr.Dan"<nospam.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns9E1520C...@216.196.97.131:
>>>
>>>> I have a win 7 64 bit os which came with the drive partitioned. Half
>>>> as the c and the other half as the d drive. For me thats fine, I will
>>>> keep an eye on things and manage where data goes and that kind of
>>>> thing. But my daughter just bought a win 7 64 bit laptop and it came
>>>> partitioned c, d and e. The d partition is for recovery data. Thing is
>>>> she would never manage the drives. If the c drive filled up she would
>>>> not know to go to the next partition.
>>>
>>> That's what backups are for. A hard drive is *never* a vaild backup
>>> device.
>>
>> Good old chucktard, answering a different question.
>>>
>>>> So my questions are why do the manufacturers do this, is there a
>>>> practical reason? Should I resize the c partition on her machine to
>>>> eliminate the e drive? Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> Do that and she'll have problems. Bad ones. However, the one question I
>>> do have is what *physical* drives are C: D: and E: *on*?
>>>
>>
>> How many laptops have you seen with more than one hard drive?
>
> External drives dont count?
>
Meat Plow
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:02:08 +0000 (UTC), Meat Plow <mhy...@yahoo.com>
> That depends on how much security you think is reasonable, practical,
> and necessary. Three places is just a minimum.
>
> I used to take rotating backups home, figuring my business and house
> were unlikely to both burn down at the same time.
All the business accounts I administrated before my semi-retirement in
2003 were backed up to 8 gig Travan 7 days a week, with 2 backup sets
being rotated bi-weekly. One set went home with the office manager. These
were from financial institutions (banks and credit unions) and law
offices.
thanatoid
<snip>
> I honestly tried to help another person whereas your post
> didn't try to help anybody.
I wasn't trying to be helpful, I was just being an asshole.
Zu Arsschlaark!
"Dr.Dan" <nospam.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9E1520C...@216.196.97.131...
where's 'dan c' when ya need him ..
[yep, dr.dan, you have a namesake!]