Windows7 (hereafter 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 system, download, games, music and movies, etc., divided into three to five Partition. 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, how to partition the large hard disk is quickly becoming 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 for many users to enable FAT32 in Windows XP and use NTFS.)
It is the improvement of the disk management format for Windows. After the release of the 7th, the user once again set off the debate on how to rationally 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 benefits from both positive and negative aspects of backing up files to "external hard drive", in fact, is to remove important files on external hard drive backups. In addition, the internal hard disk is actually divided into one area. 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;
Tip: “What is Windows.old”?
Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, when users use the method of overwriting the installation system, the system will automatically generate a “Windows.old” in the original system hard disk partition. file. 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. Do not need to copy large files and temporarily "moving space"; collectors are retired
3. Convenient library file management and indexing under Windows 7, users will not find files because of cross-partition speed reduction;
4. Hard disk space utilization can be maximized.
In addition, Windows 7 can only be divided into one user, but also listed 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, and even appear The partition table is incorrect and there is an extremely dangerous problem 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. (Windows 7 system restore or installation, 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" Easy to file management and other reasons to refute, and believe that "multi-partition" way, after many years of tests by Windows XP, it is a reasonable way of disk management.
From the perspective of an ordinary user, the author believes that Microsoft introduced the library file management method for Windows 7, which has met the basic conditions to meet the demand of "a 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.