OS and files on seperate partitions...

[mo786]

Hello all,

Thinking about another thread on this forum where peopel install their OS and files on seperate hard drives so that an OS **** up will not result in anythign happening to their files.

I don't have 2 seperate hard drives but I was planning on maybe doing a simialr thing over 2 seperate partitons...i.e on my 400gb drive give 10gb to OS and the rest to my files.

Anyone else done this and is it worth is? And what is the best make to make it seamless? i.e when I save a file to get it to save straight to the other HDD rather than continually having to browse to the other HDD.

Also would it work by having 380gb for files, 10gb for uBuntu and 10gb for Vista? Could I then save all my files to the 380gb section and access them from both OS's?

Finally what could cause the partitions to become messed up (other than a hard drive failure) i.e could a virus get onto my OS partition but still bugger up the other parts?

 

[mo786]

Thanks for that. I might just leave a seperate partition for uBuntu as I am still only experimenting with it for now.

So would you suggest files on 1 partition and everythign else on the other? i am not too bothered about doing fresh installls of all of my software after an OS reinstall

how would you go about it? install vista on the first aprtition and then get it to recognise and format the next partition and then just basically use it as an addon drive?