Soon a lot of you and I will be getting 60 gig and 80 gig drives because the prices are coming down.
I read all the files on this board on partitioning and so now I am going to try to set the record straight.
Best way to partition those big drives is first of all NOT to create a small one or two gig drive for windows like many people here have said but to create one 8 gig drive for Windows, the swap file and the major apps you use.
A hard drive is fastest at the outer layer and that is where you want to put the main things you use. A separate partition for the swap file like a lot of people say to do will only slow your computer down since it takes longer for the head to go back and forth to another partition. However, a swap file may work well if put on a second drive that is equal to or faster than the bootup drive.
Some people say it is safer to run apps and documents on another partition. But if the system goes bad then you can always get back in to safe mode or get back in from another partition or hard drive you set to bootup. So that shouldn't be a problem either. Also, there is software that will even get programs from your disk after it has been erased. Like one time a trojan wiped my drive clean and I was able to save most of it by the software.
You could get a virus or trojan horse which would wipe your partition clean but with such large drive space you should make it a point for convenience and quick recovery to create a drive image of your bootup partition and save it on another partition or CD.
Some of you have complained that such drive image software costs too much but you silly gooses, drive image software from hard drive companies like Maxtor is completely free from their Web sites. And the software works with any hard drive. You could create a drive image periodically whenever you have added a lot of things.
So there is no reason that you need to have a small bootup partition or an extra swap file partition on the same drive because those things will only make your computer less efficient.
As far as partitioning the rest of the drive. 8 gigs keeps your cluster size at 4K. 16 gigs is the max for 8K clustors. So you might have several 8 gigs and several 16 gig partitions for storage and backup. I don't think I would make just two partitions because of the very large cluster size of the second partition and because you may want to add another Operating System some day and just because it helps to divide up different types of files.
I don't really like making your bootup partition FAT 16 like some of you have said. And I reallly wonder how much faster you bootup with the Fat 16 partition then the FAT 32 partition. I'd be surprised if you even got one second faster.
Now that is what I have said and I am sure I am right. So I hope that sets the record straight for partitioning.
I read all the files on this board on partitioning and so now I am going to try to set the record straight.
Best way to partition those big drives is first of all NOT to create a small one or two gig drive for windows like many people here have said but to create one 8 gig drive for Windows, the swap file and the major apps you use.
A hard drive is fastest at the outer layer and that is where you want to put the main things you use. A separate partition for the swap file like a lot of people say to do will only slow your computer down since it takes longer for the head to go back and forth to another partition. However, a swap file may work well if put on a second drive that is equal to or faster than the bootup drive.
Some people say it is safer to run apps and documents on another partition. But if the system goes bad then you can always get back in to safe mode or get back in from another partition or hard drive you set to bootup. So that shouldn't be a problem either. Also, there is software that will even get programs from your disk after it has been erased. Like one time a trojan wiped my drive clean and I was able to save most of it by the software.
You could get a virus or trojan horse which would wipe your partition clean but with such large drive space you should make it a point for convenience and quick recovery to create a drive image of your bootup partition and save it on another partition or CD.
Some of you have complained that such drive image software costs too much but you silly gooses, drive image software from hard drive companies like Maxtor is completely free from their Web sites. And the software works with any hard drive. You could create a drive image periodically whenever you have added a lot of things.
So there is no reason that you need to have a small bootup partition or an extra swap file partition on the same drive because those things will only make your computer less efficient.
As far as partitioning the rest of the drive. 8 gigs keeps your cluster size at 4K. 16 gigs is the max for 8K clustors. So you might have several 8 gigs and several 16 gig partitions for storage and backup. I don't think I would make just two partitions because of the very large cluster size of the second partition and because you may want to add another Operating System some day and just because it helps to divide up different types of files.
I don't really like making your bootup partition FAT 16 like some of you have said. And I reallly wonder how much faster you bootup with the Fat 16 partition then the FAT 32 partition. I'd be surprised if you even got one second faster.
Now that is what I have said and I am sure I am right. So I hope that sets the record straight for partitioning.
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