What's the point of partitions?
Besides the obvious, having multiple OS's, why do some people make a 1GB partition for windows (installing programs adds DLLs to there and it might run out of space), one for music, one for videos, one for games, etc?
Isn't that what folders are for? Some say it's so they dont loose everything, but it doesn't change the fact that it's still a single drive and if it crashes everything is gone, regardless of partitions. Viruses also can easily spread to other partitions, they aren't magic walls that block viruses, if they were then it would make more sense, but they can't block viruses either.
I can understand one partion for the OS and your files in another so you can re-install without wipping your files (on a planned occasion, not due to a crash), but even then, you can do that with no partitions. But what about those that make a partition for music, one for the os, one for games, I mean what's the point? You're just limiting your space for each section for no reason, what if you suddenly have more mp3s or more games than fits the partition? This wouldnt be a problem with folders.
Does anyone know of any advantage of doing this or are these people not aware of what folders are? Or am I missing something?
Thanks