Introduction: At the moment when the 120GB "large-capacity hard disk" appeared, how to partition the large hard disk, quickly became the focus of users' hot discussion. Especially after the release of Windows XP system by Microsoft, users can find a lot of reasons for the argument that "the big hard disk should be divided into several districts" and "how much should the C disk be divided", "the public said that the public is reasonable, the woman said that the woman is reasonable" The discussion is very enthusiastic. Finally, in the time when Windows XP is popular, everyone seems to default to the phrase "3 to 4 partitions are reasonable." But now, with the release of Windows 7, the topic of "how to partition" has once again attracted the attention of users. Why
has been inconclusive debate in the WindowsXP era, the dispute again after Windows7 release it? The author believes that this is related to the hard requirements of the two-generation operating system for system format partitioning.
accompanied by the emergence of the NTFS partition Windows2000 format, users do not agree with the basic beginning, which reflects customary select FAT32 each time the user will install the system, while ignoring the existence of NTFS. Until Windows XP was released, more and more users were affected by "NTFS is more secure than FAT32", and slowly began to use NTFS format partitions in Windows XP. (Another reason is, FAT32 volume format can not save files larger than 4GB, which is so important for many reasons in WindowsXP users to enable FAT32 instead of NTFS use.) It
improve disk management format, After the release of Windows7, users once again set off the controversy about how to partition a large hard disk. Why do you say that?
on Microsoft Windows7 Chinese official page, there is such a description:. "Location to save your backup depends on the available hardware as well as information to be stored in the backup for maximum flexibility, we recommend that you save the backup in the external hard drive. "
as a result, there are computer users that understanding is, both positive and negative instructions from Microsoft to back up files to" good external hard drive, "the fact is, removed In addition to backing up important files on the external hard drive, the internal hard drive is actually divided into one zone. User grounds for this view is as follows:
1. Windows7 even in a case where a system crash, the user covers the mounting, due to the presence of "Windows.old" file, the user data is not damaged;
Tip: What is "Windows.old"?
at WindowsVista and Windows7, when the user covers the mounting system employed, the system will automatically generate a "Windows.old" in the original file system hard disk partition. After reinstalling, Windows 7 will transfer the files in the three directories "Windows", "ProgramFiles", and "Users" in the original system to the "Windows.old" folder.
2. do not have to copy a large file size and the temporary "mobile space";
3. convenient under Windows7 library file management and indexing, users will not find files across partitions slow down because;
4. hard disk space utilization can be maximized.
Furthermore, thinks Windows7 users can only divide a region, but also from the negative list of reasons: when to repartition the hard disk partition
1. multi-user, using the PQ and other software, easy Lost data, even partition table errors, the extremely dangerous problem of hard disk recognition.
2. Use Ghost redo the system, tantamount to complete the formatting and new security, it makes all the original partition data loss. (Under System Restore Windows7 or installation, due to the presence of "Windows.old" file, users do not lose data.)
oppose the use of a user partition under Windows7, still with the "multi-partition" easy File management and other reasons are refuted, and the "multi-partition" approach, after years of testing by Windows XP, shows that it is a reasonable way of disk management. After
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from a common user's point of view, I believe that Microsoft introduced Windows7 library file management, which has met the basic conditions from the "big hard drive only The need to divide a district. In particular, the management and search of library index files, it has completely replaced the Windows XP resource manager. But if it is a multi-partition, users also need to index different partitions (or partition files), which is undoubtedly a more detour for themselves.