Is it smart to install windows 7 on a different partition?

armysgt1

armysgt1

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If I were to create a partition on my disk just for windows 7, apart from my games, movies, etc, would it be beneficial? As in performance or reliability? Thank you.
P.S. I'm getting my new new 890fxa-ud5 and 4 gb of corsair xms3 today and setting up 2 500 gb WD Caviar Black 6gb/s hard drives in RAID 0 if that helps
 
Well I found that when my hardware decided to die on me, because I had partitioned my media from my programs and OS, when I transferred the hdd over to the new built, I simply rewrote over the OS partition and all my media had been saved. Its the way I have stored all my music and such for years because I know at some point I change things and have to either reinstall my OS (hardware failure is usually the case). As for performance I'm unsure if it will make any difference, but if your running it in RAID shouldn't that increase the performance?
 
The only beneficial thing I can recommend would be to keep your personal data separate from the windows partition. I have always made 2 partitions on one drive. The first one for windows and apps and then the second for personal data, such as music, downloaded files, office documents and such. The only time I would recommend installing the games to separate partition/drive would be when you are using an SSD drive.
 
Just thought of another question, sorry. Let's say say I partition the drive for 100gb for windows 7 and games, then 400 for my media and I want to put more games than the 100gb partition will fit. Can I change the partition at any time so it can be larger than 100gb? And will the more I partition, the greater risk of hard drive failure?
 
I believe windows 7 will allow to steal free space from one partition and give it to another.
 
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