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| Thread ID: 128666 | 2013-01-07 00:39:00 | A Social chat on hard drive partitions | Frank_sumbody (16923) | PC World Chat |
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| 1321754 | 2013-01-07 00:39:00 | This morning a wasted a lot of time trying to help someone with partitions, his pitiful response has left grudge on my hate list . The sums might have been a joke but logic was not, that is why I put a warning at the top, hoping “someone” would ask! instead of adopting childish behavior . Some of the points I tried to point out is “partitions might slow down your hard drive” “partitions saved my hard drive once when I had my head in the sand over viruses and I got a virus that wrecked my operating system, I just reformed that partition, reinstalled the operating system, and I was back on deck, in fact I think the only thing I lost was time” “I like to think of file cluster size when partitioning, picking on a small hard drive, why would you partition a hard drive into a lot of 10 meg partitions, while if you made it 8 meg, The space used on the hard drive would be half the size every time you save a file in there, due to file “cluster” size" . However when I made the posting I forgot windows 7 uses NTFS file system not FAT system . |
Frank_sumbody (16923) | ||
| 1321755 | 2013-01-07 01:34:00 | Most versions of windows can use NTFS or FAT32. But most users will probably use NTFS. Since FAT32 has a file limit of 4 GB. Whereas, NTFS doesn't have a limit I've never had a prob with 4 partitions slowing me down. And that's 1 reason why I partition. If I want to format, I don't have to format the whole hdd, and start all over again / re-partition the hdd. I just format the partition I want to install the OS on It depends on the system on how big the hdd can be. I fixed an old system once, it couldnt handle any hdd over 20 or 40 GB. Without a BIOS update. I had to update the BIOS first, or it would crash the system. And you can only make so many partitions on a hdd. It's not unlimited. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1321756 | 2013-01-07 02:48:00 | “partitions saved my hard drive once when I had my head in the sand over viruses and I got a virus that wrecked my operating system, I just reformed that partition, reinstalled the operating system, and I was back on deck, in fact I think the only thing I lost was time” “I like to think of file cluster size when partitioning, picking on a small hard drive, why would you partition a hard drive into a lot of 10 meg partitions, while if you made it 8 meg, The space used on the hard drive would be half the size every time you save a file in there, due to file “cluster” size" . . I like 2 partitions, 1 for the O/S and one foe the rest . Because you can then image the O/S and it saves a lot of time if disaster does strike and you need a reinstall . Viruses though? No . . . . 10mb? These days, even my small drive with it's small partition is 40Gb . Tiny partitions are just annoying these days, as Speedy as said, file limits . . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1321757 | 2013-01-07 03:08:00 | This morning a wasted a lot of time trying to help someone with partitions, his pitiful response has left grudge on my hate list. The sums might have been a joke but logic was not, that is why I put a warning at the top, hoping “someone” would ask! instead of adopting childish behavior. You suck it up and get used to it. It's part of offering free help, you don't always get thanked. Some of the points I tried to point out is “partitions might slow down your hard drive” Bollocks. The speed is the same regardless of if you have one partition or 6 partitions. The only difference may be where on the disk it's physically located access times etc, but that's not something specific to partitioning. “partitions saved my hard drive once when I had my head in the sand over viruses and I got a virus that wrecked my operating system, I just reformed that partition, reinstalled the operating system, and I was back on deck, in fact I think the only thing I lost was time” That's an incredibly nice virus to only go searching your primary partition. Most will happily hose over files on any partition / HDD you have attached, and then some. Not the ideal reason for having a partitioned HDD if you ask me. “I like to think of file cluster size when partitioning, picking on a small hard drive, why would you partition a hard drive into a lot of 10 meg partitions, while if you made it 8 meg, The space used on the hard drive would be half the size every time you save a file in there, due to file “cluster” size". Because the amount "left over" isn't worth worrying about, nor worth confusing new users about. So they miss out on a few MB, they've probably got a terrabyte or two and won't notice it. However when I made the posting I forgot windows 7 uses NTFS file system not FAT system. Only for the primary OS drive (Permissions requirements etc), but still works fine with FAT partitions / drives otherwise. |
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