I f*cking hate windows(love/ hate abusive relationship for sure). All my installs fail or get corrupted. No matter how careful i am.
I keep nothing on the C: drive. All my data on separate drives. I backup my windows drive monthly in fear that my PC might decide to brick itself after a bad update or faulty shutdown.
As I type this,my desktop no longer booting and its been “attempting to repair windows” for 3hrs now. Good thing i made a backup on a separate drive 2 months ago, lol.
Anyone else here instinctively take measures to hedge against windows unreliability??
No…I arrange it against the potential of the OS install failing. No OS is infallible or immune to you or some bad other thing happening. I wouldn’t put my data on the same partition of a Linux install either- I wouldn’t put it on the same disk even, if I could avoid it, just like on Windows. If for no other reason than historically, having all your stuff on the same disk as the OS could cause really significant performance impacts. It’s less of an issue with solid state storage, but it’s still there, to say nothing of storage density of hard disks vs solid state.
Plus, depending on what you are doing, it’s very possible that your OS disk is the most active one in your system, so it’s going to potentially have wear related problems much sooner than your data disks.