I am going to be doing my winter break os wipe soon, and I figured I would ask this simple question and see if I could save myself a headache in the future.

If I partition my OS SSD, leave my OS on one partition and install all of my files (office, visual studio..etc) on the other, if I wipe windows and reinstall it again, will it still be able to recognize all the files on my other partition? It almost sounds to good to be true since I am sure it installs files on the OS drive that are needed to be ran, but I figured i'd ask.

Thanks!
 
I thought of this because I have wiped so much I apparently hit my office install limit and have to call the annoying number >.<

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Yes you will have access, because it is just data. Programs you will need to reinstall though, but music, pictures, executable programs etc will be fine. Unless it wipes that some how as well, never partitioned an SSD before and not sure how they act when you partition them. Was always under the assumption it is better not to partition one.
I keep everything I want to keep on a RAID array. So I have never had to worry about what you are asking. If I understand what it is you are asking that is.

Yeah, basically here i what I am thinking of doing:
 
I have one 128GB SSD.
 
I will partition about 50GB off for windows 7 itself, and the other remaining memory I will leave for Microsoft office, and any other program I don't install on my secondary hard drive.
 
My end goal is to not have to reinstall Microsoft office every time I wipe my computer, because as I've said I somehow hit my install limit (which I didn't even know I had) so every time I install it now I have to call the Microsoft number and put in a new code.