I noticed that most computers that come with windows pre-installed usually
parition one drive into C: and D:. I sthere a valid reason for this? I am
going to wipe mine our for various reason. But I am going to use one
partition instead of two. Is there a technical reason to have the drive
partition into two.

Data Segmenting or Drive Partitioning has two basic benefits. First,
Organization - keeping certain data separate from other data. Also
it makes imaging an XP install or instance smaller by keeping things
like personal data on a different physical disk or partition. Using a
single partition causes operations like defrag and other maintenance
operations to take longer to complete. With today's usage patterns
many people have lots and lots of multimedia files (Music/Pictures &
Videos). These can take up large amounts of space and sometimes
it is more efficient to store them on individual partitions. Also, the
content that is on the 1st physical partition (outer edges of the disk
platter) are faster. You would want XP to reside on the first or the
fastest disk areas and put less used data further into the drive. When
you "Clump" everything together on a single partition, it can lead to
slower overall performance as head travel requirements increase.

"klafert" <klafert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A35205AC-5545-491E-9931-5DC8C0EDD502@microsoft.com...
>I noticed that most computers that come with windows pre-installed usually
> parition one drive into C: and D:. I sthere a valid reason for this? I
> am
> going to wipe mine our for various reason. But I am going to use one
> partition instead of two. Is there a technical reason to have the drive
> partition into two.
>

=?Utf-8?B?a2xhZmVydA==?= wrote:
>
> I noticed that most computers that come with windows pre-installed usually
> parition one drive into C: and D:. I sthere a valid reason for this? I am
> going to wipe mine our for various reason. But I am going to use one
> partition instead of two. Is there a technical reason to have the drive
> partition into two.

Often folks use the second partition for storage of music/video files so
they dont have to have their pc move them around for no reason when they
defragment C:

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klafert wrote:
> I noticed that most computers that come with windows pre-installed usually
> parition one drive into C: and D:. I sthere a valid reason for this? I am
> going to wipe mine our for various reason. But I am going to use one
> partition instead of two. Is there a technical reason to have the drive
> partition into two.
>


Placing data files on a partition or physical hard drive separate
from the operating system and applications can greatly simplify system
repairs/recoveries and data back-up. But you certainly don't have to go
this route, if you don't want to.


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