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Partitioned hard drive - oldie


Posted: Oct 04, 2011

My old computer is 10-years old and has given me a blue screen 3 times when I am in AOL only.  My computer guy has suggested a rebuilt computer with XP cause that's what I need, or a new computer with a partitioned hard drive.  Does anyone have an opinion on this?  I am not that informed to know if this would work well.  Any experience with or opinion on this would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

mine just died and here is what I did - hope it helps

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I just got a new hard drive because the one I've been using was less than 3 years old, but I gave them my licensed copy of XP to have them install instead of W7.

I also have an old computer, about 8 years old, and I'm taking it apart to use for a spare hard drive as a back up.

A partitioned drive is a wonderful thing to have. Back in the 1990s/early 2000s, the computer I used had NT and 98 partitioned so I could work in either environment. There are advantages to having a partitioned hard drive. If you work for a national that installs a program to copy your keystrokes to monitor your productivity, you would only have it on one operating system and you could safely do your banking and social networking on the other operating system without fears of someone seeing what you are doing. You can have W7 as one operating system and XP as the other.

If I were in your shoes, I would get a new computer with the partitioned hard drive. That would put you in a better position in the next few years if you change jobs and they need you to work in W7 instead of the XP that you use now. Having new parts would also protect you against failure of little parts that matter, like an old CD ROM going bad. You can use the partition to back up one side to the other (XP to the W7 side).


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