That will work.

I used to have many partitions.

Now, I think the best route is the OS partition, a File Saving partition, an Active Games partition, and a Backup partition (Backup preferably on a different HD). I've found that larger partitions give more flexibility than many smaller ones. In fact, I've taken that to the extreme of having 6 hard drives -- each with one partition.

Active OS and non-game Software Appplications

Active Games

Passive File storage (patches, personal, pictures, other downloads)

Passive Multimedia files (video, movies, audio)

Backup 1 (on an internal drive)

Backup 2 (on an external drive that is normally disconnected)

Merely what I do, FWIW. I think anything one is comfortable with is OK -- but a separate Backup will probably "pay for itself" someday.

Now, I think the best route is the OS partition, a File Saving partition, an Active Games partition, and a Backup partition (Backup preferably on a different HD).

I second Speedo. All those partitons are going to slow that modern fast hard drive down to the speed of an old PATA drive from years ago.I have my OS on a 750Gb WD Black and all my apps and games too. Nothing but backups and DATA on the second hard drive, a WD 1TB green.

I've run 3 partitions on a single drive and actually gained some performance (tho fairly small) by selecting where to put each partition physically on the drive (outer edge vs. innermost edge. Then you can have your OS/Games partitions on the fastest part of the drive, while all the random files are stored where seek times aren't as important. Then, you can use defrag software like UltimateDefrag to even better organize those files for optimum seek times/performance. The defrag software alone can do this on a single drive; but you will have to do it a lot more often as data keeps getting written/overwritten. It just better helps organize software IMO.

It's kind of a hassle; but in the end it does work.