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| Thread ID: 39590 | 2003-11-11 07:43:00 | Do I need to partion my HDD | tedheath (537) | Press F1 |
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| 190939 | 2003-11-12 09:46:00 | I have used Partition Magic to partition my 40Gb drive into 7 partitions. That might sound excessive but I find it works a treat this way. Scandisk and Defrag work so much faster with only chunks of the drive to work on at a time, especially as I'm only running a Celeron 500. Another thing is as the partitions get larger the cluster size increases. I like to keep the cluster size less than 8k. That means smaller files create less wasted space. Partition Magic is worth the expense because it allows you to do so much. Besides being able to change the size/number of partitions at any time, you can change the cluster size etc as well, all without the loss of data (power failures notwithstanding ;)). I keep the Windows partition as small as practicable and try not to install any applications on that drive. I recently reformatted this small C: partition and reinstalled Windows 98SE. I've had to reinstall some of my applications because bits of them were in the C: partition and some wouldn't work without their registry settings, but many applications are working fine because they are entirely on my Programs partition and fixed up their own registry settings. Anyway, there's no way I'd go back to having a humungous single partition :-) |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 190940 | 2003-11-12 15:23:00 | I agree with Rod and Tweakie - I used to be against the idea of partitions, but now I'll never have a big single one. My main drive is in 4 - Operating System (WinXP Pro) 5G (wish I'd made it 10), Applications 20G, Games 20G, Data 30G. I use my second drive split into two - 1 for backups, 1 for miscellaneous If I only had one smaller drive say 30G, I'd just use 3 partitions - 1 for Windows, 1 for applications etc, 1 for backups - maybe 10 gigs each |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 190941 | 2003-11-12 15:25:00 | Oh ya... if you have XP - it does the partitioning very nicely - no need for the recommended Partition Magic - apparently it's a wonderful product, but I've never tried it (no free version! LOL) | Greg S (201) | ||
| 190942 | 2003-11-12 21:45:00 | I'll been sold on the idea of partitioning my drives ever since I tried a partitioning scheme many years ago. By various upgrade and other reason I now have three HDD in my machine. I have Win98, Programmes and back up partitions on one: games, win date and linux date on another: and various linux distro/data partitions on the third. Its very handy to be able to back-up to separate disks/partition to enable system changes etc. I've used Partition Magic 7.0 and found it easy to use although it does not recognize linux ext3 format. |
aperahama (1786) | ||
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