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Hi Bob,
>FWIW I've never understood why one would use logical drives post
>win98 Release one.
One simple reason for using logical drives is to protect against
viruses. Suppose you have only one hard drive, one partition and you
are infected with virus...you might be forced to format and lose data
(there are ways to get around it but not everyone knows how).
If you have one hard drive but two logical drives, say C and D drive,
when your C drive with Windows on it get infected and you format the C
drive, the D drive's data remains.
Regards,
intermilan04
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Bob Jagow" <bjagow@xxx> wrote:
>
> Me thinks he meant physical drives.
> FWIW I've never understood why one would use logical drives post win98
> Release one.
> BTY how would you characterize your market re the world and re the
SP-500?
>
> regards,
> Sage re part 1 and wants2know re part 2.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Yuki Taga
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:25 PM
> To: Ara Kaloustian
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] OT: Windows XP
>
>
> Hi Ara,
>
> There are physical drives and logical drives (paritions that are
> divisions of the same physical drive). Putting apps and data on a
> logical drive D that is on the same physcial drive as drive C will
> get you some organizational benefit, perhaps, but very little if
> anything in the way of performance benefit.
>
> Putting your apps on a separate physical drive might provide some
> benefit. Usually having the pagefile on a separate physical drive
> will provide some performance benefit. It depends on the speed of
> the drives, and how much memory you have, and how much pagefile you
> need or use.
>
> But creating logical drives D and so forth on the physical drive that
> is also the system drive (C) is basically an organizational thing.
> Some people are happy to back up data only (a presumed drive D), and
> not worry about the OS (they would re-install it). Other people
> (like me) don't want the hassle of a zillion OS settings lost, and
> they want C and D, and anything else, backed up. For them, there is
> little benefit of logical drives on the same physical drive, assuming
> a single physical drive that is where the system lives.
>
> That said, I have a C, D and E on one physical disk. Not for
> performance at all, just for organization that relates to the way my
> mind organizes things. But I have 5 physical disks, and only a token
> pagefile on C, the main ones are on two other drives.
>
> Yuki
>
> Tuesday, August 15, 2006, 3:50:07 AM, you wrote:
>
> AK> Am trying to decide how to for my Hard Disk (for new machine).
>
> AK> With my Win 2000 I had all applications and data in drive d: and
> OS in drive C:. I am not sure if I got any benefit from having the
> applications on drive d:.
>
> AK> Now considering putting OS and all applications on C: and data
> on D:.
>
> AK> Will probable also have multiple boot.
>
>
> AK> Appreciate comments on why one way or the other.
>
>
>
> AK> Thanks
>
> AK> ara
>
>
> Best,
>
> Yuki
>
>
>
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