Best way to organize partitions...?

[Kenneth]

Howdy,

On my present system I have Windows, applications, and a
fair amount of data in the same partition...

I now understand that to be (shall we say) something less
than the best way to organize my system, and won't make the
mistake again, but...

I will soon be getting a new system, and I do have questions
about the best way to arrange things:

Specifically, I am considering putting all of my software
installation files in a partition of their own, but don't
know if doing that would prevent applications from
installing correctly. Would that work?

If I were to go that route, I would have:

Partition 1:
Windows
Applications

Partition 2:
Data only

Partition 3:
Installation files
for all applications

Is that a reasonable plan?

Might there be a better approach?

Sincere thanks for any help on this,

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Howdy,

On my present system I have Windows, applications, and a
fair amount of data in the same partition...

I now understand that to be (shall we say) something less
than the best way to organize my system, and won't make the
mistake again, but...

I will soon be getting a new system, and I do have questions
about the best way to arrange things:

Specifically, I am considering putting all of my software
installation files in a partition of their own, but don't
know if doing that would prevent applications from
installing correctly. Would that work?

If I were to go that route, I would have:

Partition 1:
Windows
Applications

Partition 2:
Data only

Partition 3:
Installation files
for all applications

Is that a reasonable plan?

Might there be a better approach?

Sincere thanks for any help on this,

I consider this an excellent approach. Make your first
partition 15..20 GBytes so that you have room to grow.
One could argue that there is little benefit in creating
partition 3. There is a danger that you eventually run out
of space on partition 2 while having plenty of spare
space on partition 3, or vice versa. This would not
happen if you left them as one single partition.

 

[Kenneth]

I consider this an excellent approach. Make your first
partition 15..20 GBytes so that you have room to grow.
One could argue that there is little benefit in creating
partition 3. There is a danger that you eventually run out
of space on partition 2 while having plenty of spare
space on partition 3, or vice versa. This would not
happen if you left them as one single partition.

Howdy,

The partition for application installation stuff was just in
the spirit of "then I know where things are."

With your comment I see that it would probably just be
better to have a partition with data folders, and a folder
containing all the app setup stuff.

Sincere thanks,