Interesting to see the debate here on partitioning. I accept if we have to do a Windows reinstall we'll also have to reinstall most programs - but often the tweaked configurations will still be there. I don't put ANY programs on drive c except security software (if Windows needs reinstalling so does that) and badly designed software (like MS-Office) that has drive C hard coded in the odd place.
Generally I put apps on drive d, and have two separate partitions - one for home data and one for work data. I've been doing this since I got my first PC - oops no sorry my third PC. My first didn't have a hard disk, and my second only had a small one - and with only DOS as the OS wasn't really an issue. It also lent itself to multi-OS systems, with the data shared between them.
So obviously I still encourage partitioning. A tech support person for some software I've been using over a decade was flumoxed recently when he tried to tell me it should be on drive C. But given it's usually networked, this seems doubly crazy.
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