Analyze the hard disk partition of Windows 7 system only one case

Nowadays, it is not only the era of big memory, but also the era of large hard drives. Therefore, it is impossible to divide a few hundred G hard disks into only one partition. Most people have three to four partitions, but the author recently heard that only It is beneficial to divide a partition. Is there any such thing?

Why is there a controversy in the Windows XP era, and there is a renewed controversy after the release of Windows 7? The author believes that this Two generations of operating systems are related to the hard requirements of 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 generate in the original system hard disk partition. 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. Do not need to copy large files and temporarily "moving space";

3. Convenient library file management and indexing under Windows 7, users will not find files because of cross-partition Reduce speed;

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. (Windows 7 system restore or installation, due to the existence of "Windows.old" files, users will not lose data.)

And against Windows7 users using a partition, still use “ "Partitioning" is easy to file management and other reasons to refute, and believes that "multi-partition" way, after many years of testing by Windows XP, it is a reasonable way of disk management.

This is the introduction of the benefits of a partition, but this depends on the individual, some users do not like so few partitions like multiple points is also possible, you can always look at it, I hope to help everyone.