Partitioning IDEA???

[mitch88]

I have received what seems to be a bright idea.
I would like your opinion;

I partion main drive like this
60+ GB IBM
7+ GB primary partion
20+GB logical (programs, swapfile?)
33 GB for video processing-art-etc.

2ND drive is a 8GB IBM

After I have installed and tweaked all my progs and am satisfied

they are smooth, I back up the 7+ primary partition to the 2ND
small drive. And redo it every week or so.
So if W98 goes south on me I just 'Nortons Ghost' it back
from the small drive that has set turned off in the bios till I
need it?
This should remove my need to reinstall all the progs....
Is this right???

I have lost all or most of my data 3 times do to windows
'blowing up'.
There has got to be a way to make this idea work

I really appreciate your input.
Thanks for your time.

Mitch

 

[edfair]

I would be more inclined to separate programs, data, and swap into separate logical drives and backup the data to the second drive.
Granted that the reload of programs is a pain, loss of the entire big drive without data backup will be more of a pain. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply.

Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[raygg]

I would put the system and swap files on the 8gb, partitioned into two 4gb drives. A 4gb partition should be plenty for the system and swap files - copy it to a ghost bkp - on the 60gb and everything else to the 60, which you might consider splitting into a 4 plus 2 other large drives. The 4 would be a full bkp of the C:\. Since win98 is kind of flaky compared to almost anything else, you might consider changing os's.