Question about hard drive parbreastioning 2091

Efficiency isn't an issue these days. With the performance of hard drives these days, the issue is organization and protection.

I will set my systems as:

Drive 1 (Internal): C: 15-20GB O-S D: CD-ROM E: 15-20GB O-S F: Programs-Data (the rest of the Drive)

Drive 2 (External USB): G: 150-300GB

The E: drive is for an alternate OS. I use it to install XP when I need to rebuild my configuration. This allows me to keep the old one running while I'm configuring the new one.

The G: drive is for storing my ghost images (and anything else that needs to be archived). I keep it turned off except when the Ghost backup is scheduled or I need to restore a file or folder..

I find absolutely no advantage these days with partioning a hard drive beyond 2 parbreastions, at least for the "basic" operation. First of all, you can't separate the OS and programs. Every time you install a program, Windows will install critical files on the boot drive. If the boot drive has to be rebuilt-restored, you will have to reinstall the programs.

Second, with the cost of additional internal and external drives (and backup software) declining and the performance improving, the idea that backing up multiple smaller parbreastions is somehow faster or more efficient just doesn't cut it. also, selectively restoring files-folders is easy.

Regards, Hank Arnold