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Originally Posted by Phaneuf3
So in the end... you do the OS rebuild and your registry is nuked. Your programs that can't/don't regenerate their keys and can't/don't operate without them will need to be reinstalled regardless if you kept them on the same partition or a different partition. You're stuck doing a reinstall of the application weather it was in C:\Program Files\ or D:\Games so your point is moot. However, depending on how your partitions are set up, putting stuff in D: may have been better use of your hard drive.
I was not trying to say that putting them on a different partition won't hurt them in case of an OS rebuild but they're hurt equally in terms of registry problems. Therefore, if there are other advantages to putting them onto a separate partition - go for it.
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Just let it be one honkin' drive. You aren't limited to certain drive sizes anymore, and the old rumour of putting your swap partition on its own drive (let alone a separate partition on the same drive) was shown to have negligible difference (< 1% maybe). You can get some benefit if you make a system drive with one of the high speed drives (Velociraptor et al), but I'm not sure the price/noise/heat premium of those drives are worth it for the average user.
I do use a second drive to store media, download, documents, etc.
But for a laptop, I'm very surprised the drive was partitioned (other than the hidden recover partition). Make it one large drive and backup all your datafiles and anything you don't want to lose on an external USB Drive.