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  1. On MBR you can only have 4 primary partitions. However there is a mechanism to create extended partitions which are essentially partitions within one of the primary partitions. This has been a thing since the DOS days but as few people need or want multiple partitions on DOS/Windows (beyond what the system sets up by default I mean) it's probably not widely known about.
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  2. I agree, and since laptops have started to come with multiple NVME slots, it's a more practical solution for more people. You can even mount directories from your data drive back over "c:\users\{itsame}\Documents" or whatever else you want which makes using a set-up like this even better.
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  3. You can actually set the My Docs etc to point to spots on the secondary partition/drive. This is what I did for my sister's machine. Now her data is kept on a separate drive from her OS without her having to do or even know anything about it. I mostly left the AppData and other stuff related to installed software on the original drive. This means when backing up the user data, it's just the data she cares about and not a heap of other stuff that is only marginally useful in a system recovery scenario. If you do want to save stuff from those directories, like Thunderbird email profiles, just move the profile to the data drive and map that directory back to where it belongs in the AppData tree.
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