Why Do You Need To Partition Your Hard Disk?

By Zemog Xilef Sevet

This article does not talk about the technical side of why we need to partition our hard disk rather this is intended to help the person realize that there is a need to do so whether you are a technical person or not.

This is based on my personal experience. Partitioning your hard disk will save you a lot of time, money and headache!

Partition your hard disk in such a way that your operating system and data files can be separated housed separately.

In the event that a virus will attack your PC and corrupt your operating system, what you can do is to format your disk and start with a fresh install or you can download anti-virus but it’s not a guarantee especially if the virus is new. You need to copy your data files if you didn’t partition your hard disk before formatting it.

Now, how much time will it take you to copy all the files if you have, say 40GB of data? Can you assure yourself that you have copied all the necessary files? How about your favorite links from websites? How about your hidden/secret files? You need to be sure that everything is copied before you proceed. What about the need of another hard disk to temporarily save your files? It’s quite a headache actually.

Now, if you have partitioned your hard disk, you will only format the part where the OS resides. No transferring of files! No headache!

So next time, take this as an advice. Partition your hard disk.