Share 'Is partitioning a Hard Drive the best way to prevent data loss if computer crashes?'

- If so, how do I do it? - Do I put the OS on one drive and all files on the other? It's happened me before so now I'm getting a 640GB laptop, so I think I'll partition it this time. - Would it be possible for the hard drive without the OS, the file one, to crash as well? - If the OS hard drive did crash, how do I get the files from the other hard drive? Can I just plug it into another compu...