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133344	2003-04-12 05:30:00	> The Student: Why do you have so many little > partitions? If you don't mind me asking . :-) Hiya Susan, No I don't mind at all . . . Ok! Here’s a question! How did you know that I had all these partitions? You see, I used a link from a previous posting to upload my images and apparently, I cannot see nothing but the error: "Page cannot be found"?? So I feel pretty bummed out at the moment upon having to upload another image . . . . . !! Ok, now going back to your question, the first reason why, I have so many partitions is because I have 2 Hard Disk Drives . You probably couldn't tell, just by looking at that, so had to let you in on my little secret… . . Secondly, each HDD has a duty to perform . - In my opinion that is (in case Mikebartnz might question me on this) The first hard drive is responsible for: Operating Systems: XP, 2000 Office applications; MP3, Email, Ghost (End of the HDD) You might say, why email? Well, it’s because I use 2000 as my main OS to work from, and that there are more than one user at a time using this machine . Problem is that when any user (except Administrator) opens up Outlook for email, how can that user distribute the email message to another user without affecting security and rights issues? By having an email partition, I can do this . This acts like a gateway for users to open and distribute email to any user from all account groups . Adobe on the other hand, is recommended to be installed on a separate partition . Overall, if the first Hard Drive fails, it doesn’t bother me at all, because most of my important contents are stored in the second hard drive, as I speak…… . The Second HDD is responsible for Page files for XP and 2000; most importantly, backup, files . If my Operating System goes AWOL, or HDD 1 fails, at least I know that this will not affect my backups, as most of my files and other accounts are stored here . I’m sure you got the picture here, (including Mikebartnz ) so I probably don’t have to expand further more on my many partitions… . Okay, moving onto your next question… . . > I always thought each partition hogged a fair bit of > hard drive space to write the FAT (or whatever it is) > so the more you have, the more space is wasted . > Unless I have got it all wrong, of course . Hmm this is all news for me . . . . . . Sounds very technical indeed… I can not stipulate if your right or not on this . My expertise has gone to mush at the moment, so it’s back to the books I guess!!! I hope this is good enough to explain some of my reasons for my amass of partitions there . If not, let me know . Cheers .	The Student (3269)
133345	2003-04-12 05:31:00	> how come the link has a 20% or somehting You tell me? I don't know?	The Student (3269)
133346	2003-04-12 06:42:00	The Student: You should try and avoid spaces in filenames uploaded. The space needs a %20 (HTML for a space) replacing your space, and the link works fine. Hence some can see it. Also hence the forum linking software assumes that when it encounters a space the URL has finished	godfather (25)
133347	2003-04-12 09:18:00	The Student: > Ok! Here?s a question! How did you know that I had all these partitions? Easy! I copied and pasted your link because I knew it was broken and would not take me to your page . ;-) Like Godfather said, you need to avoid spaces in file names, and even then the forum sometimes has a mind of its own . Experience helps . ;-) Thanks for the explanation regarding your partitions, I can see your reasoning . I am not sure where I read about lots of partitions taking up more space and cannot even be sure if I dreamed it or not so don't quote me on that one, will you . :p Cheers .	Susan B (19)
133348	2003-04-12 10:17:00	Many replies have come from my original question and I thank you all most sincerely for the interest and guidance you offer me . God bless you all and my decision now is between Download Accelerator Pro which I used with Win 98 (but I find the latest version is add intrusive) or Flash Get which I shall probably try . The replies since April 11 re NTFS etc are way beyond me . I hope I'm not missing something . I wish I could get my head around computers and at 81 I'm running out of time . I've just bought a laptop so I'll take that with me when I go then I may understand it better when I see you up there . Thanks again, you're most helpful . Dumb-bell .	dumb-bell (3303)
133349	2003-04-12 10:37:00	Ummm, Pat (I am not calling you dumb-bell :O) Download Accelerator Pro and Flash Get are used for downloading files, not for defragging, which is what this thread is about. Have you accidentally posted your reply in the wrong thread, do you think? ?:| > I wish I could get my head around computers and at 81 I'm running out of time. Are you really 81? It sounds to me like you are doing very well with computers, you should be proud of yourself. My dad won't touch them and he is younger than you. :-)	Susan B (19)
133350	2003-04-12 12:19:00	Thanks Susan. Yep wrong thread. Silly me. dumb-bell - aptly named.	dumb-bell (3303)
133351	2003-04-12 12:22:00	Hi godfather, Yea, thanks for that bit of extra information...... Cheers	The Student (3269)
133352	2003-04-12 12:25:00	I am not sure where I read > about lots of partitions taking up more space and > cannot even be sure if I dreamed it or not so don't > quote me on that one, will you. :p > > Cheers. Ok, will keep that in mind....	The Student (3269)
133353	2003-04-12 23:05:00	>>Secondly, each HDD has a duty to perform. - In my opinion that is (in case Mikebartnz might question me on this) I totaly agree with you on partitioning. I like the way you say that each HDD has a duty to perform as that describes it very well. As for Susan B query about wasting space through partitioning. You have a partition table and if you use Fat you have a file allocation table for each partition which is relative to the size so the space wasted would be minor.	mikebartnz (21)
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