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Well, again this is what works for me as far as using many partitions. In my unique case, I have many pursuits that I use the PC for. Besides the typical day to day web and Office use, I also am a photographer, musician, and recording engineer. Right off the bat, you can probably guess that this means a lot of files. In fact, between all 20 drives, I have to over 318 GB and over 390,000 files on my current XP-PC, that I'm in the process of migrating over to my new Win7 PC.
It would give me nightmares just thinking if all those files were in one drive. Besides being a huge reliability risk, it would also be almost impossible to back all that up short of a second drive configured as a RAID or a drive setup to just mirror as a backup.
Yes, 20 drives is a little over the top, but my current XP-PC, is really a multiple upgrade all the way back to Win98, so there are some relics lurking on the PC, but its anyone guess what and where they are.
My new Win7 PC has a 1TB primary, and a 500GB secondary drive, which I will use for backup and very large files. I paired my primary down to about 10 drives, and the secondary to 5 drives (3 for storage/backup and 2 for the Swap and Temp drives). Again, the large number of primary drives is really driven by the large volume of files. Besides, I still just like manageable drive sizes.
As far as Easeus, because I'm running Win7-x64, I have no experience with the 32-bit version, only the 64-bit Pro version. The user interface looks like a direct Chinese to English translation using the usual Chinese western font, but in the end, it did what I needed it to do, so in that respect, it worked for me. I also looked at the Acronis software. It looked more polished, but it was also more expensive. Again, because this is really a one-shot effort (resizing my pre-installed Win7 installation), I had few options.
Bill