Curious why new laptop only has one partition

Page · Jul 25, 2009

All recent laptops that I have bought have had two partitions (plus a hidden recovery partition) but the latest one (VAIO) has just a single partition.

I had always seen the split between programs and data as a sensible one so was wondering if anyone knew why they might have moved away from this.

Paul Kelly ICHYB · Jul 25, 2009

some companies do, some dont.

Technically, storing programs and files is only good for house keeping - if your HD fails, you will not be able to access either partitiion!

Moneyman · Jul 25, 2009

It is much better to get one partition and then you can do what you want. i have one of those netbooks and the partitions are set and we have spent ages trying to get round it because some programs wont play ball.

Be happy.

stugster · Jul 25, 2009

consultant said:
Technically, storing programs and files is only good for house keeping - if your HD fails, you will not be able to access either partitiion!

I am totally against having recovery partitions or storing the OS on a partition on the same drive for this very reason. Giving a customer a CD with that data on it is pretty straight forward and I've never understood why companies don't just do this anyway (oh yeh, scraping that tiny profit margin, that's why).

I had a client last month whose hard drive died. I had to install a new drive for her and reinstall the OS. She then complained (and demanded) that she wanted the recovery partition back the way it was previously (even though I had supplied her a bootable recovery CD, and a Drivers and Initial Software CD).

No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she was completely adamant that this usually useless partition should eat up 5% of her storage capacity.

The first thing I did when I received my HP laptop a few years back was get in contact with them to get the drivers and Windows CD posted out. They did this first class and free for me, and I immediately removed the partition

JoyDivision · Jul 25, 2009

Slug I might have been tempted to just walk out. Or tell her she would need to get the CDs of HP.

I hate the damn things too, when I got my Dell laptop the first thing I did was Format C: and reinstalled Windows on the CD Dell kindly gave me.

KM-Tiger · Jul 25, 2009

JoyDivision said:
I hate the damn things too, when I got my Dell laptop the first thing I did was Format C: and reinstalled Windows on the CD Dell kindly gave me.

Which has the advantage of ditching all the vendor-supplied garbage that you don't want.

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