Daniel Podgurski wrote:
Back when I used to work in a small PC shop part time, we would ALWAYS create a partition on a drive and copy the customer's copy of Windows to it, so when they broke the system and brought it to the shop, we could rebuild their OS without even using the cdrom. Indeed, if you take this unix pilosophy to your own Windows machine, I see absolutely no reason why \Windows, \Program Files, and \My Documents shouldn't be on separate partitions.
Because Billy Boy says so. On XP, you can finally move My Documents to another partition, it's difficult to move others. Even when you move My Documents, not all applications recognize the move. Incidentally, my ThinkPad came with XP, on with I created a FAT32 partition for My Documents, so that both Linux and XP can access the data.