Experience exchange of Windows7 partitions as long as one can be

Windows7 (hereinafter referred to as Win7) in the end how to partition properly, there are many different opinions, many friends choose to follow the WindowsXP (hereafter referred to as WinXP) habits, the hard drive according to the system, download, game Classification of different uses such as music and movies, divided into three to five divisions. However, in the new Win7 system, the concept of "library" has been introduced. Is the disk partition the same as before, which is divided into many partitions?

At 120GB“large-capacity hard disk” At the moment of emergence, how to partition the large hard disk quickly became the focus of the user's hot discussion. Especially after Microsoft released the Windows XP system, users should be able to find out a lot of reasons for the "large hard disk should be divided into several districts" and "how much should the C disk be divided", "public relations and public reason" The wife said that she is reasonable. The discussion is very enthusiastic. Finally, in the time when Windows XP is popular, everyone seems to have defaulted to the statement that 3 to 4 partitions are more reasonable. But now, with the release of Windows 7, the topic of "how to partition" has once again caught the attention of users.

Why is there a controversy in the Windows XP era, and there has been renewed controversy after the release of Windows 7? The author believes that this is related to the hard requirements of the two-generation operating system for system format partitioning.

With the NTFS format partitioning that appears in Windows 2000, the user basically does not agree with it at the beginning. This is reflected in the habitual choice of FAT32 every time the user installs the system, regardless of 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 that the FAT32 format cannot save files larger than 4GB. This is also an important reason why many users enable FAT32 in Windows XP and use NTFS.)

It is the improvement of the disk management format. After the release of Windows 7, the user once again set off the dispute over how to partition the large hard disk. Why do you say this?

On the Microsoft Windows 7 Chinese official page, there is a description: “The location of the backup is determined by the available hardware and the information to be saved in the backup. For maximum flexibility, it is recommended that you save your backups on an external hard drive. "Therefore, there are computer users who understand that Microsoft has explained the benefits of backing up files to "external hard drive" in both positive and negative ways. In fact, it is said to remove the external hard drive. In addition to backing up important files, the internal hard drive is actually divided into one zone. The reasons for this view are as follows:

1. Even in the case of a Windows 7 system crash, when the user overwrites the installation, the user data will not be damaged due to the existence of the "Windows.old" file;

Tips: "Windows.old”What?

Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, when users use the method of overwriting the installation system, the system will automatically be in the original system hard disk partition. Generate a file for “Windows.old”. After reinstalling, Windows 7 will transfer the files in the three directories of the original system, "Windows", "Program Files", "Users", to the "Windows.old" folder.

2. Don't need to copy large files and temporarily "moving space"; collectors are retiring

3. Convenient library file management and indexing under Windows 7, users will not be cross Partitions find files to slow down;

4. Hard disk space utilization can be maximized.

In addition, I think that Windows 7 can only be divided into one user, but also lists the reasons from the reverse:

1. Multi-partition users, when using PQ and other software to re-partition the hard disk, It is easy to lose data, even partition table errors, and extremely dangerous problems with hard disk recognition.

2. Using Ghost to redo the system is equivalent to completing the formatting and new security, which will make the original partition data all lost. (System restore or installation under Windows 7, due to the existence of "Windows.old" files, users will not lose data.)

And against Windows 7 users using a partition, still use “ Multi-partition & quo; easy file management and other reasons to refute, and believe that "multi-partition" way, after many years of testing by Windows XP, it is a reasonable way of disk management.

From an ordinary user's point of view, the author believes that Microsoft introduced the library file management method for Windows 7, which has met the basic conditions of the "large hard disk is divided into only one area". 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.