Setting Up Partitions

[Vakas]

I am planing to re-partition my drive and reinstall Windows I have a few questions I hope you can help me with.

I have always kept windows on a seperate partition to my programs is there any point to this? if Windows does become corrupt and I formate the drive I will have to install all my programs again anyway.

Is there a way so if Windows does get corrupted I don't have to install all my programs again?

Thanks

[CCT]

Good article here: http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/avoid.shtml

[theonetruely]

I am planing to re-partition my drive and reinstall Windows I have a few questions I hope you can help me with.

I have always kept windows on a seperate partition to my programs is there any point to this? if Windows does become corrupt and I formate the drive I will have to install all my programs again anyway.

Is there a way so if Windows does get corrupted I don't have to install all my programs again?

Thanks

hi Vakas
personaly i only use one partition with win XP and if windows gets corrupted,i just restore the corrupt file from my xp disk
boot from cd rom , when prompted press R and run a (chkdsk /p)
that will replace corrupt window files

[geeksRus]

go ahead and partition like you usually do. i assume you try to keep your data files on a partition separate from Windows installation. after you install all of your programs you can use a program such as Ghost to create an image of the windows partition. then if windows becomes corrupt you are just a few minutes away from restoring windows and your programs. from time to time you can re-image this partition if you add or remove any programs.

[Vakas]

Well my Windows installations dosn't usually get corrupted I just experience a lag in performance and reliabilty like I am doing now.

So I always think doing a fresh install is the best approach in this situation.