partitioning drive C

[Softus]

they found the guts of the memory stick, took it to a specialist company and they were able to view said picture of stick.

I don't find that at all impressive - I would have raised an eyebrow if they'd retrieved nothing though.

The fact remains, people carry memory sticks around, and some people lose them. If you're foolish enough to treat that single stick as a backup device, then you risk coming a cropper.

The other fact is that they crash. Not often, but they can, and do.

Memory sticks: good for some things, but not good for everything.

 

[tim west]

Agreed, EEprom has a finite number of writes to any one address/location some devices can have as low as 100,000 writes before failure others as much as 1,000,000. if doing a lot of moving files or rearranging of files this limit can be reached in quite a short time, I've known some people to defrag a usb stick on a regular basis a surefire way to early failure.
The thing is you can't be sure when the device will fail so backing up to one should only be used as extra supplementary backup to a more robust medium.

 

[sm1thson]

gparted is a free partition editor, you download it, burn it to a disk boot the machine with it in and boot from the CD, it then runs a version of linux on you machine, but its got windows to move round and things to click so nothing to be scared of, and you can partition the disk easily.