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> barry -dot- kieffer -at- exgate -dot- tek -dot- com wrote:
>
> Greetings Julie,
>
> Why partition the hard drive at all? It does not gain you any space. It does
> not gain you any protection.
>
> I just can not see why it would be of any benefit al all.
One benefit is organization. If you set up a partition for data only, you can set up the directory structure to have 5 or 10 or so directories that make
sense to you. If you use drive C, your data can be buried among 100+ directories with cryptic names, and the Open File dialog box is just not very big.
Some people are happy with the My Documents folder, but some of us are not.
