Replacing system hard drive (physical)

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  For clarity - does someone know exactly what is located on the system hard drive and thus would be lost in case of a drive failure?

  
  

  Say I have a large drive (1.5Tb): The C:/ partition is clearly toast as it contains the system. Is the rest of the disc is used (as a separate partition) used for data or wasted?

  
  

  If so, would it make sense to purpously have a smaller system drive (say 200gb) to avoid loosing data in case it fails (as it seems the system HD is the most likely to go, based on what I can see in the forum.

  
  

  Finally, I understand the replace procedure is to extract the faulty drive, install a new one in its place and then boot from the install DVD to RE-install (as a "new" install would wipe the data?!) is that correct?

  
  

  Thanks!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Tuesday, July 7, 2009 6:24 PM