Oh, not to gain some sort of security, but simply to make a logical separation between things like letters and in particular, photos. I have formatted and reinstalled the OS in the past without having to copy a 100 GB of photos in two directions.
What gripes me is - HP in particular - the recovery disc putting everything back to square one. Getting rid of HP-itis is bad enough, but then I find they've kindly removed my partitions.
As mentioned, is there any way to make a recovery DVD of the current state of the HD?
EDIT to say. I have a Seagate Blackarmor network drive, but I have no way of knowing if it will do its stuff in a crisis. In fact, apart from being a backup for all the computers to see, it spends most of its time doing nowt.
It was supposed to be accessible from afar, but when in the UK I always power down the house, so no help - and this is apart from the fact forums say they have problems making that software work.
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Last edited by Loose rivets; 24th February 2013 at 08:01.