Technology in terms you understand. Sign up for my weekly newsletter, "Confident Computing", for more solutions you can use to make your life easier. Click here.
New computers often come with multiple partitions. While it’s tempting to remove them, there’s a little to be gained.
Does Having Multiple Partitions Shorten My Hard Disk’s Life? - Hard drives get laid out in fairly complex ways. Second-guessing how your disk heads move as part of a decision whether to use multiple partitions is not really a practical way to save a hard drive from failure.
How do I backup multiple partitions? - How you backup partitions depends on your backup software. Most allow you to backup multiple partitions into a single backup image file, but more than likely, you get to choose.
