Should I Set Up Two Partitions on My Hard Disk?

☝️ Does splitting your hard drive into two partitions makes your computer faster and backups easier? I'll share my opinion on what partitioning really does and doesn't do, and what works better.

☝️ Partitioning that disk
Splitting your hard drive into two partitions sounds like a good idea, but it probably won’t help as much as you think. Most programs still need C: no matter what, and reformatting means reinstalling everything anyway. One partition per drive is simpler and works just as well.

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Chapters
0:00 Should I Set Up Two Partitions on My Hard Disk?
1:03 About that “huge amount of speed”
2:28 Installing applications on a drive other than C:
2:16 Those applications on D: when you reformat C:
3:09 One for all, all on one
4:05 One exception

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