Syntho said:

I guess what I could do is buy a completely new HD and have the installs on different disks rather than different partitions on the same disk. That would probably help.

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I really doubt it. From the high-level file system’s perspective, there is no difference between a logical “volume” (the official term) that is kept in a partition on a given drive and a volume that is kept on a separate physical drive altogether.