Hello,
I have a newbie question.
I have a 1TB external HDD that I want to partition into 4 x 250GB sizes.
I've heard from people that if one partition gets corrupted, the others are fine (you'll have to use data recovery software, but the data itself will not be corrupted, just inaccessible because the drive failed in some way).
On the other hand, I've also heard that if the drive "crashes", that all data might be lost, regardless of the partitioning.
Now, I can understand if the drive in question was the drive in the computer and was running the OS...if that crashed then it would make sense that you wouldn't be able to get to any separate partitions and would therefore have to do data recovery software. But if we're talking about an External HDD that is just a storage HDD and one of the 4 partitions goes south, will that really affect the integrity of the data from the other partitions?
Thanks,
jman995s
I have a newbie question.
I have a 1TB external HDD that I want to partition into 4 x 250GB sizes.
I've heard from people that if one partition gets corrupted, the others are fine (you'll have to use data recovery software, but the data itself will not be corrupted, just inaccessible because the drive failed in some way).
On the other hand, I've also heard that if the drive "crashes", that all data might be lost, regardless of the partitioning.
Now, I can understand if the drive in question was the drive in the computer and was running the OS...if that crashed then it would make sense that you wouldn't be able to get to any separate partitions and would therefore have to do data recovery software. But if we're talking about an External HDD that is just a storage HDD and one of the 4 partitions goes south, will that really affect the integrity of the data from the other partitions?
Thanks,
jman995s