[RTTY] Backup / partitioning recommendations

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- Bill Turner <dezrat at copper.net> wrote:

> If you're backing up 40 Gb from your C drive, you need to do some 
> pruning. With that amount of data, I'd recommend two drives, a 
> relatively small C drive and a relatively large D drive. Have all 
> your programs and application data on the C drive and your documents, 
> images and whatever else on the D drive. That way, you can image only 
> the C drive, which is by far the most critical since it contains the 
> operating system and app data files, and do simple backups on the D 
> drive which is much less critical, since it contains files which are 
> not dependent on each other such as the registry, etc.

A slightly different point of view.

Have *three* partitions:

  C:\ which has the operating system ONLY

  D:\ which has all your application PROGRAMS (like MS office)

  E:\ which has all your data

Don't install any applications in C:\Program Files - install them in D:\.  Most
of the time you will have a choice - sometimes you do not.

Then you only *really* need to back up the E:\ drive.  Operating system and
applications can be re-installed from original media, but your user data is
irreplaceable.

I have moved my "My Documents" folder to the E:\ (data) partition (right-click
on the icon [Properties] and change the target).  I save my Quicken data on
that partition as well.  I back up my DX4WIN and Writelog data to that
partition.

I have a separate partition for photos, but that's another story.

73 - Jim AD1C


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