I recently got a WD MyBook (8TB) to store some disk images and ripped DVDs on. Decided to make the disk image with CloneZilla and when doing this I thought I’d make a Linux image and a Windows image. The way my drives are I have a 2TB drive that’s solely windows and then a 1TB drive that’s 50:50 Linux and Windows.
I then had the thought, what’s the point of splitting it this way? Why not just make 2 disk images one for the 1TB and one for the 2TB? Since if a drive fails I’m going to need to restore the whole drive.
So my question is, generally, do partitions fail so that only a single partition needs restoring? My idea is just that if anything could fail it’s going to be the whole drive itself rather than just a single partition on the drive. Could someone confirm please?