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Comment by Wolf on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 11:40 PM)
This is an interesting article, and I agree with much of what is mentioned. I have installed 2 different types of Linux on a 2nd hard drive, which I i...
Comment by Leo on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 10:26 PM)
I agree with most of Bob's points. I understand his one-partition strategy, but what if an aggressive Windows update (or a mistaken user choice) wipes...
Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. (Ernie) on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 07:58 PM)
I've been dealing with all the partition size limits as well as all the other limitations of the Microsoft operating systems going back to the days of...
Comment by Mike PRemo on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 07:02 PM)
I'm total old school on this. Since leaving the employment which required me to maintain a database. I have not kept up with Windows. I can manage my ...
Comment by Cork on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 06:52 PM)
Agree that partitions for Windows (or MacOS) are of limited to no value. I have found them of great use in Linux, particularly on my test machine....
Comment by Charley on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 06:03 PM)
I find that having the OS on C: and my users on D: helps me when I have a corrupted OS, from a bad update or something else requiring me to reinstall ...
Comment by hifi5000 on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 05:38 PM)
I use a separate hard drive as a backup for some of my personal files and documents. I use a Linux OS and pretty much leave it as is when I install it...
Comment by Keith on Hard Drive Partitions: Old-School or Useful Tool? (May 21, 2026 05:30 PM)
Thanks for being so realistic with your lack of interest in changing things around on Windows, because they once made sense (sort of') but much time f...
Comment by howard on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 15, 2026 11:23 PM)
just a reminder, for all the AI lovers, bob asked AI a question, that he knew the answer to, got an incorrect reply, so asked AI if it lied, AI said y...
Comment by Ernest N. Wilcox Jr. (Oldster) on How Many of These Power Search Tricks Do You Know? (May 15, 2026 02:41 AM)
I usually ask questions when I'm in search of answers, or the name of a GNU/Linux distribution when I want its download page, or a "What is" question ...
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