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| Thread ID: 54917 | 2005-02-25 21:46:00 | Use of Divided Hard Drive | JasonEdward (7129) | Press F1 |
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| 328230 | 2005-02-25 21:46:00 | Hi again, fonts of IT knowledge My new PC has 40 gb divided into C-25 and D-15. All data so far is in C. What's the best way for me to use the divided drive? Can I back up files to D, and then only back-up to DVD once a month instead of once a week? I'd apopreciate the best ways to put the divided drive to my best use. Cheers and thanks |
JasonEdward (7129) | ||
| 328231 | 2005-02-25 21:51:00 | Well yer thats what partitions are used for I guess. Depends on what you're putting on DVD. On how often you should do it. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 328232 | 2005-02-25 21:54:00 | In theory,using your D drive for backups is a good idea. However, since harddrives have a habit of packing up suddenly, I would still do the weekly backup to a multi session disc (just to be safe), and backup either the disc, or the D drive to DVD monthly. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 328233 | 2005-02-25 22:24:00 | You should also consider putting all your stuff you would normally keep under "My Documents" on the D partition. This serves a two fold purpose; one it prevents issues if your profile gets corrupted and you are no longer able to access your personal stuff under your "My Documents" profile, and two it makes backup easy to DVD as everything important can be found in the one place. :) | Jen (38) | ||
| 328234 | 2005-02-26 02:23:00 | In theory,using your D drive for backups is a good idea. However, since harddrives have a habit of packing up suddenly, I would still do the weekly backup to a multi session disc (just to be safe), and backup either the disc, or the D drive to DVD monthly. They do? I've a number of old ones, one of which is 5 years old, still working well. Start by using a reliable brand. As for suddenly, failing HDDs normally give off a few symptoms beforehand unless it is the controller that fails: Like noise, frequent corrupt files/folders, jumping into scandisk/chkdisk often etc. As for use of partitions, I have the O/S on C: and everything else on D: (including a ghost image of C:) |
pctek (84) | ||
| 328235 | 2005-02-26 02:34:00 | Normally they do, but I've had harddrives just pack up on me. | Myth (110) | ||
| 328236 | 2005-02-26 04:41:00 | Hardrives bite the big one when and how they like, what ever age they are. They can die slowly, rapidly instantly, noisly, quitely. No brand or make is immune. Never trust one hardrive in system, trust two marginally, three a little more. Never use just one hardrive even if it has partions to back up primary data. When the drive dies your precious well organised backed data is history. Backup to external media and back up those as well. I have a bad case of paranoia over data loss :o |
the highlander (245) | ||
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