Hildur K. wrote:

> Early on (after my first HD crash which


> each on a single physical drive, which means I use the primary partition (C)
> for the OS, drivers and programs, and the other partitions (D,E,F) for all work
> and data (NEVER saving to "MyDocuments" or "Desktop"). The hard drives are much

> 
> In the (very likely) case my OS eventually crashes, I can reinstall or upgrade
> without touching the other partitions so there is no loss of data.

I do this.

I mean, *now* I have multiple seperate physical HDs so it's kind of 
unavoidable having seperate logical volumes. But I did it back when I 
only had one drive too. Makes reinstalling the OS that much easier 
without losing work. (If anything on my PC could be considered "work".)

I also have a big folder containing the installers for every program 
I've ever downloaded, so I can reinstall them all quickly without having 
to redownload them. (OTOH, I typically end up downloading a newer 
version anyway, so I'm not sure who I'm kidding...)

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