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| 42874 | 2002-04-09 16:24:00 | I just got a 60gig Hard disk for my PC. I have installed most of the normal stuff (win2k, office2k blah blah blah) What i really want to know is, is it worth partioning it? What is the benefits of it? would it be faster left as a full 60gig? | Guest (0) | ||
| 42875 | 2002-04-09 20:09:00 | Comes down to personal choice but myself,I would look at paritions. I would go for 10gb in C which would be nothing other than Windows and programs, all your data into D. The exact size of C would depend on what is already in there, if you add up all your programs only, exclude any saved data and it came to 5gb, I would make it 10 to allow for programs to be installed later, etc.Put all your data into D. If you download a lot of music or video's, maybe create a parition for that as E, if you work from home and want to keep your business and home data separate, parition it. There is a couple of benefits straight off. At the moment C drive fails because windows or another programs falls over and cannot be recovered, you lose everything other than what you backed up. Parition it and C goes belly up, just reformat and reinstall, should not affect your data. Faster defrag's and scans because you are only working with smaller paritions. |
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| 42876 | 2002-04-09 21:54:00 | i have a 60gig myself and having it partitioned makes things a lot easyier. mines split into 5,15,20,20 gig partitions. already had to do a reinstall when windows went awol. didn't lose any data. but i made one mistake, i had office on d drive which required deleteing and reinstalling. i would recommend any app that binds itself with the os be installed on c drive. | Guest (0) | ||
| 42877 | 2002-04-09 22:19:00 | Oh My God! Mine's only 6GB and only just over half full! What on earth would people fill a 60GB HD up with?!! At home, I mean. It would take a week to scandisk and defrag a HD that size on my old girl LOL (Pent II 266mHz - don't laugh, it's quite adequate for what I do on it). Actually that's something for you to think about - scandisk and defrag will be quicker on smaller partitions, won't they? |
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| 42878 | 2002-04-09 23:40:00 | Thanks very much for the resposes, you all make very valid points. For tweak'e, my dad is a graphic artist and creates about 15 200-300 meg files on any given day, so thats why i need all the space. The one question that i would still like an answer to is, does it slow down the HD @ all? forgot to mention its an ATA133. | Guest (0) | ||
| 42879 | 2002-04-10 10:32:00 | Susan, What uses 60 gig? .MP3's my collection untill a week ago when a drive failed was over 9,000 songs totalling just over 40 something gig i want a sixty gig drive or two too! |
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