Imaging Question

In my first post I asking about a Imaging app. And Kees1958 replied to make sure you put your program files on your C drive and your Data on your D drive. I bought Paragon Drive Backup 9 and I am using syncback for my Data. So my question is how do I divide the two Drives?

 

As Peter says it is a personal preference. As a 2 drive or partition man however I can think of no good reason to just use one drive. using C: and D: allows C: to be very small and small means faster imaging and restoring. Having C: and D: means you can restore C: very quickly without any change to D:

To divide your drive you will as far as I am aware need a partitioning program unless you partition at the time you install your Operating system. The one I use can be found at
http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

If there are any advantages to just having C: I'm sure that someone will mention them - It's just that I can't think of any.

 

EASEUS Partition Master is freeware and can create partitions, http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Drive Backup can perform some partition operations, as long as there is unallocated space in the disk.

 

I splitted my data for various reasons.

1. I like to carry all data with me on one TB drive
2. I have a large download folder
3. It's faster Imaging
4. It's way easier to recover
5. If disaster strikes I sometimes am not able to retrieve my files after the last time I imaged my HD

I think the best free partition tool is EASEUS Partition Master, but be sure to check this out: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-partition-manager.htm

 

I keep the system and programs on one partition; personal files on another.
I also backup my personal files to other drives.

The systems and programs change at a different rate than personal files. But also, if my system goes down it is a major PIA. Most of my personal files are really disposable.

Anyway, keeping them on different partitions (or drives) allows me to image the partitions separately, so I can set them on different schedules and each image is smaller and faster.

I "image" the system partition frequently. But for my personal stuff I use NTI shadow to merely "back up" to another drive. Every time I make any change to any file, Shadow immediuately copies it to another drive, and also stores a selectable number of previous versions.

I use Paragon Drive Backup Personal for images. It has been 100% reliable thus far. So has Shadow.

 

+1 for EASEUS Partition Master.

Great program.

 

We use very much the same plan. Having all the data on another partition just makes sense to me. My system partition is extremely small, clean with ZERO personal information.