Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 22:12:58 -0500 From: David VanHorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: renaming "Program Files" folder [LIB]
> >Well I'm thinking more of things like viruses, bad sectors, hardware >failure and the like ... the effects of those things tend to extend past >partition boundaries. > >What are you referring to? Bad sectors happen where they happen, but every time I've seen them, they've been squarely in one partition or the other. Hard fails on the drive or controller take out the whole thing, so it doesn't matter where you had your data. The few times I've had the OS pee all over itself, the damage was always isolated to a partition, or at worst a couple partitions. Like the most recent event for me, when I converted my system to NTFS partitions. J-D went fine, but it ate the C partition. Again, everything else was fine. Some apps had to be reinstalled, some (like this email program) didn't. I didn't bother backing up C, since there wasn't anything on it that I couldn't reinstall easily. ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
