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| Thread ID: 28615 | 2002-12-25 02:59:00 | partitioning drives: pros & cons? | Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | Press F1 |
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| 108855 | 2002-12-25 02:59:00 | since my new comp has special windows xp cd with all drivers, etc, partitioning my HDD would be real messy because i coodnt format (reinstalling windows wood put my paritions to 1) and if i used one of em parition magic things it'd probably corrupt half my drive...well basically it wood be messy and i like my system how it is. anywho, one of my dork friends has 4 or 5 paritions and thinks they r great and now that dork is all "hahaha mark u cant parition ROFFLES!!!" so i want to actually know, what r the pros and cons of partitioning ur drives? |
Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 108856 | 2002-12-25 03:25:00 | makes it easier to format and reinstall your O/S and organise your data i have 3 gigs for 98 plus 10 for XP and the rest is for data storage myself . Easiest way is to use Partition Magic. Pays to do it before XP is installed as it like to be the dominant O/S, smaller partions are also easier to defrag . |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 108857 | 2002-12-25 09:43:00 | How do you decide how many and how large each partition is? | Danger (287) | ||
| 108858 | 2002-12-25 09:51:00 | Danger: pre-plan when u have that just formatted clean HDD. It's a real ***** playing with them - especially when Windows is involved. Haven't used Partition Magic though - I hear that is v good. I just used to use the old FDISK - never again. :) |
HadO (796) | ||
| 108859 | 2002-12-25 09:54:00 | >How do you decide how many and how large each partition is? How long is a piece of string? Lots of programs put their hooks into the operating system - dll files, system files etc etc. If you trash the drive containing the OS and have to reformat/reinstall then you will also have to reinstall the other programs (eg Office - lose windows you lose Office also). I have 2 partitions on an 8Gb drive. 6Gb for programs, 2 Gb for data. It means if the OS goes down the data is secure (sort of - could still have a hard disk failure which would, of course, wipe both partitions). Some people use a seperate partition for temporary files. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 108860 | 2002-12-25 19:45:00 | Pays to do it before XP is installed May i ask, how to you do it before an OS is installed? I have got a new Hardrive, which i was thinking of partioning (theres nothing on hardrive yet, haven't installed it etc) and i was thinking of installing WInXp on it, but how to you partion it b4 hand? Also, when you partion drives (i've never done it) does it make your pc have "virtual drives" (eg, i partion it into 3 drives, 10gb, 10gb, & 20gb) when i go into My computer afterwards, would there be C drive 10gb, D drive 10gb, E drive 20gb etc) Also, if i install the OS on on the the partions, can it freely use the other partins? (say i wanna install a game, can i choose to install it on a differerent partion) also, if you wanna format 1 partion, can you do this without stuffing up the files on other partions? thanks |
fergie (424) | ||
| 108861 | 2002-12-25 21:03:00 | Yeah well it's kinda easyer to partition the drive before putting the OS on it. With doze, what i generally do is allow 10 gig for the "system" and the rest for ones "stuff" the reason is that if all hell breaks loose, i can formatt C and not lose "stuff" i also point "my docs" at the 2nd partition. One of my other favourate things to do is set up a seperate partition for anything shared in the network.. It keeps things clear that way C=system D=stash E=shared Linux is clever enough to set up with multi partitions, including the "/home" partition, which is about all that anyone other than the superuser can actually mess with. .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 108862 | 2002-12-25 21:06:00 | Install your hard drive & use fdisk from the boot disk. Create a primary partition of 10Gb, then make an extended drive of 30Gb. Then create 2 logical drives in the extended partition - 10Gb & 20Gb. Set the primary partition as active & exit Fdisk. Restart your computer, and format the 3 drives. When you have installed your OS you will have the 3 drives showing as seperate disks (C,D & E) If you install your OS to the C drive, formating D & E wont effect it, but if you had installed programmes to the drive you formatted windows won't be able to find it so uninstall any programmes before you format |
4bes (2848) | ||
| 108863 | 2002-12-25 21:12:00 | >how to you do it before an OS is installed? boot pc using boot disk and run partition prog off floppy/cd. partition to what ever sizes you require then format them to suit. install windows to c and any data etc to to the other partitions. the whole point of partitioning is to help keep your huge drives in order. makes it a lot easier to reinstall, defrag and makes things more organised. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 108864 | 2002-12-25 21:30:00 | ok, thanks all, thats answered my Q's now. I s'pose i'd better get to work now..... |
fergie (424) | ||
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