Why do them chinamen always do that? I mean, what's the frickin' point of splitting windows drive into multiple partition if it's SSD?!
@ThatCrazyDude
So you can just restore the image of your system partition if things go awry and not worry about your documents and other shit? 🤔
@m0xee well, maybe, but it's more likely that not that if one partition on an SSD fails the entire SSD will fail. That kind of stuff made sense, kinda, in the era of magnetic drives. But today..... It's just a pain in the ass because eventually you'll need to repartition the drive anyways because you'll run out of space on the system partition. Just did it, btw.
@ThatCrazyDude
I remember there being even earlier reasons for people to be doing this, like FAT16 filesystem not being able to span partitions bigger than… 2 Gigabytes IIRC. Or something like that, so guys had plenty of them: one for system, another one for documents, another one just for games and so on 🤣
@ThatCrazyDude
I had no idea it could help retrieve the data from other partitions when the disk was failing, in mine it was usually the electronics got fried, so if it happens and you don't have backups, you're royally fucked. Unless you are willing to pay to someone skilled enough to swap it for a board from an identical HDD to retrieve the data😅
@m0xee @ThatCrazyDude
Why not put the recovery at the end of the drive instead of splitting a 500 gig drive into 2 240 gig drives?
@echoteecat @ThatCrazyDude
I think that D: partition was created manually, and the recovery one Windows creates itself upon installation by chipping off the free space at the end of its main partition. In fact, if your Windows installation has lives long enough, you might even end up with several 😂
I kid you not, some update made the recovery system no longer fit into the old partition, and Windows was chipping away some free space again to create a new one.
