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"sittingduck" <you.love.sitting-duck@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message 
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> SP Goodman wrote:
>
>> Double not.  What if your non-OS partition fails, huh?
>
> I've never seen a partition fail. I've seen plenty of drives goe tits up
> though. Regardless, I DO have a drive image of my programs partition.
>
>> Anyone with any sense - first and foremost - keeps a backup, so that IF
>> you have to reformat/reinstall, there's much less to restore.  As such
>> Quake III Arena goes under (gasp!) C:\Program Files, with neither fear
>> nor loathing.
>
> Hey, no one if forcing you to learn anything here, you can do things the 
> old-
> fashioned noob way if you want. Some of us have learned that windows runs 
> a
> lot better if it's isolated on it's own partition.

Is this some kind of attempt to justify not having a backup then?

As someone who's been building PCs since 1981 I shouldn't care less about 
this, but it's nothing but an invitation to an argument to claim that using 
a default location for installation is the mark of a "noob".  Installation 
of a package on another drive doesn't require much technical experience 
though, does it?

I suppose such is valid, if one needs to tweak the machine that much to get 
a reasonable boost in performance.  I remember when one had to pay attention 
to cluster size on the HDD to get good performance, but after IDE drives had 
been out for a few years this was a fairly meaningless tweak, eventually 
just quoted to me by people who wanted to impress me with their alleged 
technical prowess.  Me?  Perfectly happy at 2.5G right now and I haven't 
started overclocking beyond the pedestrian as yet. :)

-- 
Stephen Goodman
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