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Just to be clear - having a mirror doesn't make corruption likely - but if it happens, it probably gets mirrored too.
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Just to be clear - having a mirror doesn't make corruption likely - but if it happens, it probably gets mirrored too.

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Thank you both for your excellent answers. &nbsp;Upping the point total to 300 and splitting them evenly.<br />
Al 
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Thank you both for your excellent answers.  Upping the point total to 300 and splitting them evenly.
Al

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Just bought Partition Magic 8.0. &nbsp;It seems to me that, given the large hard drives one has today, it would always be adventageous to place the operating system on one drive, programs on a second, and data on a third, and maybe even a fourth for a backup copy of the operating system. &nbsp;Most of the computers I work on run Windows XP, but there are also still some WIN98 and ME. &nbsp;<br />
1. Would you agree? &nbsp;Are there drawbacks to doing this?<br />
2. Is there any cookbook approach to laying out partitions like this using partition magic?<br />
Thanks,<br />
Al 
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Just bought Partition Magic 8.0.  It seems to me that, given the large hard drives one has today, it would always be adventageous to place the operating system on one drive, programs on a second, and data on a third, and maybe even a fourth for a backup copy of the operating system.  Most of the computers I work on run Windows XP, but there are also still some WIN98 and ME.  
1. Would you agree?  Are there drawbacks to doing this?
2. Is there any cookbook approach to laying out partitions like this using partition magic?
Thanks,
Al 

Procedure partitioning drives using partition magic

Software is any set of instructions that directs a computer to perform specific tasks or operations. Computer software consists of programs, libraries and related non-executable data (such as documentation). Computer software is non-tangible, contrasted with computer hardware, which is the physical component of computers. Software written in a machine language is known as "machine code". However, in practice, software is usually written in high-level programming languages than machine language. High-level languages are translated into machine language using a compiler or interpreter or a combination of the two.