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Partitioned Drives, Isolating Malware?

I have two 160GB HDDs installed at this time, one is split down the middle with most of my files on one half, the other with programs and the OS.. but I also have another drive with 154GB and a 2GB partition. I use that 2GB partition to download game demos, programs, etc from sources I'm not used to, or don't trust.

Using that 2GB partition, and possibly having programs and their folders installed on on that 2GB partition, will it isolate malware from the other drives/partitions?

makmillion

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makmillion

Is this forum dead, or is there nobody who can answer this very, very simple question?

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makmillion

It probably wont isolate malware the way you are thinking. A lot of it can install itself where ever it wants to. That doesn't mean partitioning that way is useless though. If you pick up a virus or something you probably wont lose everything if you have no backups.

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Cromewell

I keep most of my media/files on a single partition.. the OS and programs on another and have a second drive which I partitioned with one side being small enough to download files to, to be scanned before moving them to my media/files partition.

Is this a waste of time?

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