But as I ve said before in this column, I don t recommend using these utilities anyway. There are three other reasons for creating multiple partitions. One is that multiple partitions help organize directories. Another reason is that defragmenting your drive will take less time. In the above case, for example, you ll seldom need to defrag any partitions except your data and Internet partitions.
Applications don t become fragmented.
One other reason, which is not applicable to the average user, is multiple operating systems. If you re like me, however, you ll say, Thanks, but no thanks. To be safe, backup your data first. He teaches several computer science courses at Colorado Mountain College, has written several books for Que Corporation and New Riders Publishers, and specializes in the writing and desktop publishing of software documentation. He also does private and corporate instruction.