Partitioning Your Hard Drive

I have mentioned in previous posts about partitioning your hard drive and I feel I need to perhaps explain some of the merits.
I partition my own HDD and I have divided it up into different sizes according to the data to be stored. For example "data" where I store all my paperwork is 15GB "applications" where my software is stored is 20GB my "image store" where I keep all my photographs is 60GB and my "C drive" where my Windows operating system is stored is 43GB etc.
The reasoning behind this process is that by storing all your data in separate parts of your hard drive you are preserving them from misfortune.
If I have a problem with my computer and I do from time to time I can very easily format my "C drive" with windows on then install a fresh copy of windows and ALL my other data including my e mail (see first post) is still safe and available to me.
The process to do this appears a little daunting at first but it really is very easy, simply follow the instructions provided.
The good people at partition logic have provided an excellent piece of freeware to allow you to do this in the words of their manufacturer.
Partition Logic is a free hard disk partitioning and data management tool. It can create, delete, format, defragment, resize, and move partitions and modify their attributes. It can copy entire hard disks from one to another.
Some say that partitioning will slow your machine down and deteriorate its performance but I have not noticed this to be true and have been a firm advocate of this procedure for many years.