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Originally posted by CookieRevised
Except that it would indeed be more convenient to have seperate partitions for your system and for your data:

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Originally posted by djdannyp
It won't protect your data against crashes or anything as its the same physical drive.

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On the contrary! It will protect your data more than when you only use 1 partition. Reason is simple: 2 partitions mean 2 MFT's etc. When a crash occurs it usually means that a certain part of the HDD can't be accessed anymore or that the MFT is messed up or whatever. So you would still have the other partition.

Physical crashes where they entire drive would be messed up rarely occur. Usually it are messed up tables and file systems.

... And all other stuff people said...

(I speak out of experience... way too much experience tbh, ... damn HDDs )

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Same as Cookie =P
My HDD recently had a physycal damage in it's "C" partition, and I've only lost Vista because of that (phew...), was yet able to recover everything from "D" and "E".