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| 19585 | 2001-09-28 22:31:00 | i'm looking at partitioning my new 60gig drive so i don't lose all my mp3, movies,games and (if it can be done)all the other apps i use when i formatt and reinstall windows. just wondering what sizes to make them and how much advange/hassle it is to have windows on a small partition and all the main apps on another. just a side note- with harddrive sizes getting extremly large, how on earth do you do a backup for a 100gig drive?? |
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| 19586 | 2001-09-29 00:45:00 | Well, if you have a 60 Gig hard drive, space isnt of the utmost concern for you ;-) I would partition off say a nice round 5 Gig for a system partition. Your MP3's and movies and stuff will be fine on the second partition, however applications and stuff will be more hassle than it is worth, because when you reinstall windows, it wont have ANY registry keys for them. You COULD manually search for and copy every single key relating to all of your applications and then import them into the new registry, (something that would require a level of patience akin to cleaning the outside of your house with a toothbrush) but it would actually be easier to reinstall them along with windows. As to backing up a 100Gig drive, you do it in very bite sized peices ;-). |
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| 19587 | 2001-09-29 01:44:00 | To back up a 100gig hard drive I reckon the best bet would be to have a other 100gig hard drive that ya copy to overnight or something like that. JM |
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| 19588 | 2001-09-29 06:28:00 | Get another Hard drive. My main drive is a 20 Gig one. My backup drive is 40 Gigs. I just copy one to the other every now and then. |
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| 19589 | 2001-09-29 10:09:00 | thx dudes looks like i might set up a windows+apps partition and a movie+mp3 and a games partition. as per usual my old hardrive becomes the backup drive. the other option i had thought of to back up large hardrives was to go to a raid array. interesting problem for those who want huge storage;-) |
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