SSD partition...behavior!

paulobao said:

Thanks all
Ignatz, could you tell me your partition scheme?

Cheers,
paulo

Here is a pic.

It's about as simple as you can get.

Three separate internal drives: System, Data, Backup. System is an SSD. The other 2 are HDD.

One partition on each: C, D, and E. All partitions are primary.

No system reserved.

C is imaged periodically. D is backed up to E without using an image.

My images of C are stored on D just like all other data. The images are backed up to E just like all other data.

I also back up D to an external drive via a dock every other month.. And I back up my most critical text file data (about 6 GB) to a USB stick 3 or 4 times a year.

Thanks Ignatz!
So you have 3 separate discs That is cool Unfortunatelly my laptop only have one disc :-(.
Since I do not keep much data in my laptop (when I have new data I copy/paste it to external USB HDDs) maybe I can keep it simple and only have a plain, no partition disk! And I will image frequentely this disk to an external HDD (dedicated only to backup images)!

Cheers,
paulo

paulobao said:

One question: when you make an image of your system this includes all you need to recover the system to the exact same state as when you made the image? I mean all sw installed will be reinstalled from the image including all the settings, preferences, etc?

Yes. That's the premise.

The only fly in the ointment is that images do not always restore, so you need to have another plan in case they don't.

Keeping Windows in one partition and data in another means that your images of C will not contain data and will therefore be smaller.

A separate partition for data also helps in this scenario:

Suppose all your data is on C and you make an image of C on October 1.

On October 2, you produce a bunch of data and keep it on C with all other data.

Suppose your hard drive fails on October 3. You buy a new drive and restore the October 1 image.

In that scenario, the data produced October 2 is lost---unless you had it separately backed up.

If the data was not on C, it would not be over-written by the restoration of the October 1 image.

Yes I see that! But As I told you I usually copy/paste the data to an external HDD as soon (well, in the same day!) I get it!But yes, maybe a small data partition will not hurt! And data should I put in this data partition? My docs, favorites,...any thing, data wise speaking, more deep? Ex: app data? The "location transfer" from C to D do not will cause any problems? How should I correctly do this?paulo

whs said:

One question: when you make an image of your system this includes all you need to recover the system to the exact same state as when you made the image? I mean all sw installed will be reinstalled from the image including all the settings, preferences, etc?

Answer is YES. Just make sure you also image the little system partition along with the C partition - else your system cannot boot when this is corrupted. This system partition has to be imaged only once because it never changes (unless you go to double boot). Put it into a seperate folder so that it does not get mixed up.

Thanks! My laptop have a strange partition system!There is a 1.47 GB at left of C and a 14 GB recovery at right!

paulobao said:

Yes I see that! But As I told you I usually copy/paste the data to an external HDD as soon (well, in the same day!) I get it!But yes, maybe a small data partition will not hurt! And data should I put in this data partition? My docs, favorites,...any thing, data wise speaking, more deep? Ex: app data? The "location transfer" from C to D do not will cause any problems? How should I correctly do this?paulo

There's no particular reason to make a data partition on the SSD.

In fact, if the ORIGINAL versions of most of your data is on an external, I'd keep it all on the external and use the SSD only for Windows, with no data anywhere on the SSD.

It makes backup a lot simpler if ALL data is on ONE partition. Then you just back up that one partition to some other physically separate drive.

If on the other hand the original versions of most data is on the SSD, I would put all data on the SSD---but in a separate partition.

I'm just not sure where you keep your original data---but there's no reason to keep it on multiple partitions if it will fit on one partition.