My query is do long term sustained partitions damage hard drives?
I ask this because i seem to have a lot of hard drives end up going faulty on me this problem has followed me through many builds, different hard drives and hardware configurations yet the only thing that has stayed constant is the fact that i ALLWAYS partition my main windows hard drive to have a 30gb C:\ drive and the rest for storage then my secondary drives are dedicated to video and games.
my computers never seemed to get bumped around or damaged either unless the missus is clouting the pc when I'm out
any help would be appreciated as my 80gb barracuda has just started to give off errors and i would really like to get to the end of this before i put another drive in to come to the same fate eventually.
I ask this because i seem to have a lot of hard drives end up going faulty on me this problem has followed me through many builds, different hard drives and hardware configurations yet the only thing that has stayed constant is the fact that i ALLWAYS partition my main windows hard drive to have a 30gb C:\ drive and the rest for storage then my secondary drives are dedicated to video and games.
my computers never seemed to get bumped around or damaged either unless the missus is clouting the pc when I'm out

any help would be appreciated as my 80gb barracuda has just started to give off errors and i would really like to get to the end of this before i put another drive in to come to the same fate eventually.