partitioning hard drive

[ZeBeeDee]

zipper hit the nail on the head.

If an non-partitioned drive suddenly has a problem, the chances are you will loose everything stored on it.

A partitioned drive should give you the opportunity to rescue important data (which should be stored on a non-system partition anyway).

Also, partitioning allows more ease of use and arrangement of programs.

@meega

Assigns? Why not simply create a batch file that assigns the relevant disks when needed? No need to clutter up memory with assign commands that aren't used all the time  :-)

[ZeBeeDee]

meega wrote:
Who says I don't already do such things?

And how many assigns can fit into the memory space that would be used by drive buffers?

I don't know ... do you? :-)

How many drive buffers are there to begin with? All my assigns are killed upon quitting the application that needed them.

[ZeBeeDee]

That is a lot, but  I'll keep the setup I've got ...

All non-essential assigns are killed unless required, WB boots in just over 6 seconds - counting from first drive access ... I'm happy  :-D