On 9/28/2016 8:31 AM, Ray Davison wrote [in part]:
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> The computer can have as many hard drives, OSs, apps and data as it has
> room for. My desktops typically have five OSs, and laptops at least two.
>
> There is normally one OS per partition, and it is fully contained in
> that partition. however, I have had multiple OSs on a single partition,
> and put parts of an OS on other partitions.
>
> Apps tend to come with install routines that assume there is only one
> partition, that it is the OS partition, and it is "C" drive. But you
> have the choice of putting apps and data on any partition that the OS
> can access.
>
> The only apps I allow on an OS partition are utilities that I consider
> extensions of the OS, such as a file manager. I have apps on an apps
> partition and data on a data partition. And I consider the entire SM
> profile to be data. And I have moved the mail files out of the profile
> tree to a separate mail tree.
>
> And I have multiple OSs and apps sharing the same profile files. OSs
> and apps have come and gone, but my data has stayed.
>
> I have been doing the above since Netscape, which is where my current
> mail files were created, and have never "lost" mail.
I have comfigured my PC similarly but with Windows 7 as my only OS. I
have two physical drives, a solid-state drive (SSD) and a spinner. The
SSD is divided into two partitions: drive C and drive J. The spinner is
drive D. The SSD and spinner have independent controllers; neither of
them are dependent on the other.
C is named "System" and was intended to contain only Microsoft software,
including Windows. J is named "Software" and was intended to contain
non-Microsoft applications, including SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.
Unfortunately, I have found a number of non-Microsoft applications that
will not function unless they are installed on C.
D is named "Data" and was intended to contain my data: photos, Word
documents, Excel spreadsheets, Mozilla profiles, etc. When I had to
recover from a virus by reinstalling Windows and all applications,
however, Microsoft's Office somehow got installed on D. Fortunately,
none of my data were affected. It was my initial plan that any problem
with C/J would not touch D and vice-versa; that plan proved valid.
Note: I use Thunderbird instead of SeaMonkey's Mail-News capability
because I frequently swtich between browser profiles and do not want to
lose my current Mail-News session during such a switch.
--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>.
Donald Trump claims he is a successful businessman.
If so, how does he explain the number of his
enterprises that have gone bankrupt?
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