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SP Goodman wrote:

> "sittingduck" <you.love.sitting-duck@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message 
> news:Xns97E05F99DB056duckrulestheuniverse@news.easynews.com...
>> 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?

You either have no clue what a drive image is, or didn't even read my 
previous post. Keeping programs and other documents and data off of the OS 
partition makes it EASIER to do backups, IMO.
 
> 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?

Some people like thier PCs to run as efficently and logically as possible. 
Not everyone has the experience, expertise, desire, or patience to take the 
steps that are neccesary.

> 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. :) 

I generally overclock only slightly, if at all. Most of my computers are set 
up for specific tasks, and speed is not really a concern.