Simplify Backup

Not all the advice I've seen about partitioning a hard drive is particularly accurate or beneficial. Of course, we all have different needs and different ideas. The reasoning behind my personal partitioning scheme is primarily to facilitate a backup routine that I can use easily and regularly.  I have two SATA hard drives on this PC.  They are partitioned as follows:

my partitions

This screenshot was taken when my Primary XP installation was booted.  Should these logical drive sizes prove inadequate at some point in the future, I can use BootIt NG to resize them.

With ever increasing hard drive capacities,

well planned partitioning is the best way to make common housekeeping chores quicker and simpler.