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~A_Sammy
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 Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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Hi,
I'm not sure on the best way to do this. I currently have a 40 gig hard
drive with 3 partitions: one has the operating system and programs, one has
audio files, and one has graphics files. This keeps me fairly organized.
My question is, should I make 4 partitions on the new drive, and seperate
the programs from the operating system?
Some writers say this is a good idea because when it all blows up, all you
have to do is reload the os and your back in business. That never made
sense to me because I thought, and still think, when programs install they
add files to the os, ie dll's, so they wouldn't run after a reinstall of the
os due to missing installation files, but I could be wrong about this. Can
anyone straighten me out on that?
Also, if you put the programs in their own partition, will that make them
load, and/or run, slower than if they were on the partition with the os? If
so, is it enough to notice?
If the boot partition is only for the operating system, say XP, how big
should it be? Does it grow signifigantly over time?
Finally, is it a good idea to create yet another partition and use it
exclusively for the swap file? If so, once again, how big should it be?
Thanks,
as |
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Will Dormann
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| Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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~A_Sammy wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I'm not sure on the best way to do this. I currently have a 40 gig hard
drive with 3 partitions: one has the operating system and programs, one has
audio files, and one has graphics files. This keeps me fairly organized.
My question is, should I make 4 partitions on the new drive, and seperate
the programs from the operating system?
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Do whatever you like. I keep the OS and system files on one partition,
and programs on another. I do it for backup purposes.
-WD |
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philo
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:53 am Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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"~A_Sammy" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:uuudnQYX-bP9hUKiRVn-uA@comcast.com...
| Quote: | Hi,
I'm not sure on the best way to do this. I currently have a 40 gig hard
drive with 3 partitions: one has the operating system and programs, one
has
audio files, and one has graphics files. This keeps me fairly organized.
My question is, should I make 4 partitions on the new drive, and seperate
the programs from the operating system?
Some writers say this is a good idea because when it all blows up, all you
have to do is reload the os and your back in business. That never made
sense to me because I thought, and still think, when programs install they
add files to the os, ie dll's, so they wouldn't run after a reinstall of
the
os due to missing installation files, but I could be wrong about this.
Can
anyone straighten me out on that?
Also, if you put the programs in their own partition, will that make them
load, and/or run, slower than if they were on the partition with the os?
If
so, is it enough to notice?
If the boot partition is only for the operating system, say XP, how big
should it be? Does it grow signifigantly over time?
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If you install on Fat32...the cluster size is very large for partitions over
32 gigs
however, if you are using NTFS the partitions can be whatever size you wish
without wasted cluster space |
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~A_Sammy
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:59 am Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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Have you had to reformat the os partion and reinstall the os?
If so, did your programs work afterwards? |
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~A_Sammy
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:00 am Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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| Thanks for the tip Philo, I'll go with the ntfs. |
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Will Dormann
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 1:07 am Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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~A_Sammy wrote:
| Quote: | Have you had to reformat the os partion and reinstall the os?
If so, did your programs work afterwards?
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No have not. I had it partitioned from the start, so I didn't
reinstall anything.
If you want to repartition without losing data, you can use a program
like Partition Magic. Moving already installed programs from one
drive letter to another is always a touchy process. You're probably
better off uninstalling and reinstalling.
-WD |
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philo
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 4:03 am Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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"~A_Sammy" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Thanks for the tip Philo, I'll go with the ntfs.
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NTFS is a good choice...you can leave it all as one partition
or divide it up however it will be best for you...and you won't have to
worry about poor cluster size on partitions over 32 gigs! |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:13 am Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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My feeling on this is that you should have at least 2 partitions. One
for the operating system and one for the programs. Then place all the
files, download, and stuff in the non-OS partition. If the OS
creashes you do not lose your files.
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:36:16 -0500, "~A_Sammy" <bogus@nowhere.net>
wrote:
| Quote: | Hi,
I'm not sure on the best way to do this. I currently have a 40 gig hard
drive with 3 partitions: one has the operating system and programs, one has
audio files, and one has graphics files. This keeps me fairly organized.
My question is, should I make 4 partitions on the new drive, and seperate
the programs from the operating system?
Some writers say this is a good idea because when it all blows up, all you
have to do is reload the os and your back in business. That never made
sense to me because I thought, and still think, when programs install they
add files to the os, ie dll's, so they wouldn't run after a reinstall of the
os due to missing installation files, but I could be wrong about this. Can
anyone straighten me out on that?
Also, if you put the programs in their own partition, will that make them
load, and/or run, slower than if they were on the partition with the os? If
so, is it enough to notice?
If the boot partition is only for the operating system, say XP, how big
should it be? Does it grow signifigantly over time?
Finally, is it a good idea to create yet another partition and use it
exclusively for the swap file? If so, once again, how big should it be?
Thanks,
as
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Arto V. Viitanen
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| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: How should I partition a 120 gig hard drive? |
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| Quote: | "dummy" == dummy <dummy@whitehous.gov> writes:
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dummy> My feeling on this is that you should have at least 2 partitions.
dummy> One for the operating system and one for the programs. Then place
dummy> all the files, download, and stuff in the non-OS partition. If the
dummy> OS creashes you do not lose your files.
Ok, but what is OS file, and what is "your file"? For some files, it is easy
to tell the difference, but not for others. Let's assume that OS is of Microsoft
NT family. What about registry file? It comes with OS, but you make the
changes. What about different wallpapers, screensavers, startup sounds etc.?
What about different extensions to system, like music players, plugins,
firewalls etc.? Ok, you can say that "My Documents" and "Program Files"
directories are your files.
But, several program installations assume that "Program Files" is at C:. You
can tell them not to use defaults, but at some cases it does not work.
As you might have guessed, I also have my computer separated to "OS disk"
(C and disk for my files. It was hard work to try to move files from C: to
the other. Next time I install the system, I will not partition the disk. It
is not worth the trouble.
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Arto V. Viitanen av@cs.uta.fi
University of Tampere, Department of Computer Sciences
Tampere, Finland http://www.cs.uta.fi/~av/ |
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