How many Partitions do you have??

[newpersn]

My computer for work,

 

C: 83GB (XP Pro)

E: 50GB (Temp stuff)

F: 166GB (Win 7)

 

Hardly use the XP Partition but comes in handy when i need to.

[jamesfed]

120Gb SSD here so no space for 2 partitions!

I use VirtualBox as well to run multiple OSes (at the same time) as well so no need for a 2nd partition.

 

We used to have 2 partitions on teacher laptops one parition dedicated to personal data (photos and other such junk) however we have now stopped that pratice and just use Windows PE to copy the files off in the event that the OS needs a reimage.

 

Virtual host servers (which use local disks) have one small (60GB) partition for Windows Server Hyper-V and then the rest of the disk is there to store VHDs.

 

Virtual Machine Servers are all a small partition for OS + the key application that the server runs (e.g. TMG 2010/WDS) then a second partition for data for those applications (log files/images ect).

 

PCs are all single partition.

[trivers1982]

Personally One drive = 1 partition. As there is still 1 point of failure.

Want more partitions? Add more drives :-)

 

Servers are mostly 2 Partitons with a few exceptions.

 

C: System (Mirror)

D: Data (RAID5)

E: (if needed) seperate function - media storage etc

[Michael]

Plus if the client / workstation hard drive(s) goes sunny side up ie dies then it won't do you any good as you will be more concerned to replace the hard drive and possibly recover data if any off the old hard drive

 

What do they do once they swap the hard drive does there installation disc / utility restore the partitions ( 2 partitions ) and copy over a restore image to the 2nd partition or what exactly ?

 

Who knows. I don't support or use RM at any of my sites for a long while now. I'm more busy doing productive things such as deploying Windows 7

[qcomer]

Workstations:

 

1 Partition

 

Servers:

1 Partition. There is no reason to have more than one partition. I generally (depending on the type of server) have a seperate data disk (VHD) to seperate the OS from the data if the configuration would be best that way. An example would be our file server. C:\ for OS E:\ for Data storage and they are both stored on different LUNs with different RAID arrays.

[dhicks]

What does everyone else do?

 

At school, we have a plain Windows Domain Controller, no RM system or similar, imaged with FOG. I've just been setting up Windows 7 images and have noticed that, by default, if you simply give the Windows 7 install wizard a whole harddrive to use it seems to partition it up in to two partitions, with one being a small utility partition of some sort. However, I've had FOG image everything as "single partition" systems and they seem to boot fine after imaging. What is that small partition - swap space?

 

For servers (for instance, on my home system) I tend to assign each virtual machine separate volumes for OS, data and swap. My home servers only have a single RAID array each, plus an OS boot disk, with the RAID volume split into logical volumes via LVM rather than via partitioning, but ideally I suppose I'd have the OS for each machine on a smaller, fast harddrive, data on a RAID array (maybe a separate array for each VM) and swap on an SSD, with the OS for the physical server hosting the VM booting off USB and loaded entirely into RAM.

[Arthur]

What is that small partition.

The 100MB partition labelled "System Reserved"?

 

The 100 MB system partition is used primarily as BitLocker partition for BitLocker encryption. Additionally, it also holds the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) and boot files with boot manager for booting up the computer for troubleshooting when there is no Windows 7 installation DVD disc on hand. (Source)