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One thing I havent seen and it is OT but if the OP is that concerned with his data he should a lso discuss a strategy for backing up the data that works
Is it safer to put my data in c: drive?
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New #22
Yes I agree
My strategy is simple. Just copy my important files to an external drive.
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New #23
I do have the habit of backing up my files regularly,but I also wanna keep my computer running smoothly and stably,rather than someday it gives me a black screen and say it can't boot,your drives are raw or unknown do you wanna format it now?... etc.Power on,do my things,that's it.Reinstall OS and programs,transfer the backup data copy to your harddrive....It's painful,at least for me.
So now I'm at the beginning of everything,a blank hdd,two new OS.I can still dump my files when the disk is still empty.I don't want to do that when it's full of data.I just wanna keep my computer running for years,unchanged,just like what I did with xp,until the next OS release,win 8 win 9 win what....
Thank you all for reading.
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New #24
justi, besides death and taxes, hardware failure is also pretty sure in life. They all have MTBFs and it is as bad as the worst component inside that unit. Therefore there are no guarantees you will operate your machine flawlessly for years to come, no matter where you place your partitions. I think you should worry about a good backup strategy, rather than where to place the files. Barman's post is the one to be followed.
My US$ 0.02
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New #25
Yes,I'm aware of that and not planning to use a hdd or other unit forever.I know someday I have to meet the failure and have to solve it,so I always make some backup.I never put all the eggs in a single hdd.
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New #27
So everybody seems to give a "no" answer?
If it's pointless to put the data in 1st partition,I'm gonna leave it like this.
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New #29
There is an advantage about putting your OS in the first partition: if you want to enlarge it you don't have to move it around (as you would if it is the last). If you move your OS might recongnize it as a hardware change and you have to repair it. All of which may cause problems.
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New #30
You should assume that the hard drive will fail at some point, so there is no way to protect your data if its all on that drive somewhere, regardless of partitioning.
An easy free way to backup is to have all your data on e: and f:, where e: and f: are hard drives or external drives or a networked drives. Then make a file called backit.bat, put it on your desktop, and edit it using notepad such that it has two lines only:
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start /w robocopy \e\ \f\ /s /xo
start /w robocopy \f\ \e\ /s /xo
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This small batch file, anytime you click it, will cause drives e and f to syncronize files. It helps if you rename data files regularly so that you do not overwrite older files, if you want to keep older copies around.
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