[HM] Re: Partitions

[TeeGate]

Jane,

I will stick to my previous statement that if the DRIVE goes bad, both 
partitions are compromised. It a partition has corruption, then the 
other partition may not. Think of it as having two rooms in your house 
with one heater. If the heater breaks, both rooms get cold. If you just 
shut the vent on one, the other more than likely will stay warm.

Guy


On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 10:26  PM, Nevin Steindam wrote:

>
>> Yes, if the drive goes bad both partitions are compromised.
>
> Not really.  If the drive breaks down physically, then you're out of 
> luck
> (as Guy and Tom said).  But most of the drives that I've seen "go bad" 
> were
> just having problems with the data on their drive.  The information 
> about
> where everything was on the drive/partition got corrupted.  In minor 
> cases,
> this causes a little bit of data to get corrupted, or the drive to slow
> down.  In extreme cases, the drive is no longer recognizable and you 
> have
> to reformat it (thereby losing all the files).  Because multiple 
> partitions
> are seen as "logically" separate disks, this information is completely
> separate for each one.  And so that sort of corruption on one partition
> won't hurt your other drives, whether or not they are physically 
> related to
> each other.
>
> Bottom line:  I wouldn't back up important data to a different 
> partition on
> the same drive, but other than that, it's a good safety precaution.
>
> Nevin