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I've never partitioned and I've been working with PC's that have hard drives since DOS 2. I currently have a 1TB drive for Windows 7. I have a second internal 750GB drive that I do full hard drive backups with Acronis True Image software.
Old, slow computers, required a lot of time just to defrag a 10GB hard drive. That is not the case any longer, and the OS could care less where the data is - it just knows it's on the hard drive.
Like someone else mentioned, if the hard drive crashed everything is lost, if it's not backed up somewhere else.