"Old Geezer" wrote in message
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"Shane" wrote in message
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In all these scenarios you need to move My Documents and the like (ie
personal data and temp files) to another drive/partition. Not to do so is
pretty irresponsible anyway (at least once you know it is!) so is no
hardship.

That's a new one on me. Why is not moving those things "irresponsible"?

What Mike said!

Incidentally, note I added the 'once you know it is' get out. Consider also,
that these replies are meant for whoever reads them, not just the OP, and
often that means those with Restore discs which usually only wipe C,
although usually that does mean the entire unpartitioned disk and relatively
inexperienced users will restore their OEM image, or whatever, without
realising that their documents will be deleted in the process. I think that
once you appreciate the reasons Mike and I give, it *is* irresponsible to
leave data on C, at least if it is important and particularly if you'll be
advising new users. Same as it's not irresponsible to get malware
infestations as a new user, but as an old hand that's exactly what it is!

There was another point I meant to make, but it escapes me now...

Shane