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| Thread ID: 53924 | 2005-01-31 06:37:00 | Shall I partition my Harddrive? | Tribomb (5547) | Press F1 |
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| 319706 | 2005-01-31 07:29:00 | I used to partition my old 1.2gb hdd on a P120mhz Laptop I used to own... I would personally rephrase the question to: Why should I _not_ repartition? And feel free to ask as many questions as you need to become 'informed', you may as well, best way to learn :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 319707 | 2005-01-31 08:09:00 | Well as i said, if u download files often its better to partition. Then if u crash the system they'll still be there. If you dont partition, you'll have to get them again. If u havent got them on cd My downloads are stored on Leechget??? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 319708 | 2005-01-31 08:10:00 | I used to partition my old 1.2gb hdd on a P120mhz Laptop I used to own... I would personally rephrase the question to: Why should I _not_ repartition? And feel free to ask as many questions as you need to become 'informed', you may as well, best way to learn :) You don't say what the advantage is?,sorry I don't quite get it :@@: |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 319709 | 2005-01-31 08:13:00 | leechget dosn't "store" your downloads. your downloads will be in the location you downloaded them to....eg c/downloads i think most thing s are answered in the FAQ. the main idea or partitioning is to make organising and maintaining your pc easier. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 319710 | 2005-01-31 08:13:00 | My downloads are stored on Leechget??? Leechget is a download manager, so still downloads files to your hard drive. It doesnt let u store files online. Does it? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 319711 | 2005-01-31 08:21:00 | I'll stick my neck out. If it was my machine, I'd partition. Saves time on searches, as long as you have an idea which partition the file is on. It saves time on maintenance, not every partition will get the same usage, therefore tasks like disk scans, defrag, cleanup, etc, can be performed at different intervals for each partition. Unless you have a physical error (or a real nasty virus) your unlikely to loss all your data due to operator, OS or programme error if it's divided up between partitions. For 120GB I'd split it up something like this: C: 10GB. Windows. I've allowed 10GB for future SP's, and bug fixes and to give windows a bit of room to breathe. I believe you can specify the drive where the restore points are held, I'd make that the next drive or in a less used partition. D: 15GB. Programmes. That's heaps of room. If you use programmes that use scratch discs (swap space/virtual memory) like some photo editing software you could use the extra here for that and move the allocation to another partition at a later date if this partition starts getting full. E: 20GB. Homework, projects, work type data, important stuff. F: 75GB. Music, images, video/movies, downloads and stuff. Some would also be inclined to make a backup/duplicates partition (G or H depending on what your CD/DVD has grabed), although you could make a folder for that on another partition as it's probably going overboard and not a heck of a lot of use because a separate drive is safer for backups anyway. At a minimum I'd have: C: 20GB. Windows and programmes. D: 20GB. Homework, projects, work type data, important stuff. E: 80GB Music, images, video/movies, downloads and stuff. You'll also want to consider what format you'll format your drives in. Somebody put me right if I'm wrong, for XP Home you may as well stick to FAT 32 because Home does not utilise the security and othe benefits of NTFS. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 319712 | 2005-01-31 08:42:00 | Well u can format it LATER BUT u need something like partitionmagic which isnt free. And if u try and do it with windows, you'll kill the lot. So, if u wanna partition it do it now. If you get a copy of Knoppix Linux from DSE for a few dollars, you can run Linux (from your CDROM) with the KDE GUI where there is a utility just like Partition Magic called QTParted that can resize existing partitions non-destructively (not free but close to it). However you are best to create all your partitions at install time - remember though that there is a 2 stage process: 1. create a partition 2. format it with the chosen file system. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 319713 | 2005-01-31 09:35:00 | I've just ordered a new pc today with XP,(at last).The main drive is 160Gb,and the builder recommends only partitioning it in half,with the os on one with apps.So at the mo that's what is happening. | Neil McC (178) | ||
| 319714 | 2005-01-31 09:36:00 | Definitly partition. I'd suggest: 10gig - Windows 20gig - Programmes 30gig - Games 30gig - music 30gig - Data (homework, documents etc) |
Greg (193) | ||
| 319715 | 2005-01-31 09:56:00 | Well u can format it LATER BUT u need something like partitionmagic which isnt free. And if u try and do it with windows, you'll kill the lot. Hmm, with PartitionMagic, I tried to merge two FAT32 partitions. It deleted my partition table so even my BIOS refused to boot it. I ended up using Knoppix (which COULD read the data) and set it up as a Samba server and managed to recover my stuff. I havn't successfully done anything with partition magic. I found Paragon's Partition Manager 6 much better, it doesn't kill Windows either ;) |
Altec_ (2950) | ||
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