Do you partition large HD?

[Lager]

Do you guys partition your large hard drive such as 120GB into smaller partition or leave it at with no partition?

 

[Kaervak]

Don't have a 120GB, but I did partition my 40GB drive in my laptop. One 5 gig partition, and 35 gb partition.

 

[conjur]

If it's not used as a boot drive...then no partitioning.

 

[bandana163]

I prefer one FAT32 system partition plus large NTFS ones 1/HDD.

 

[bradruth]

I have a 60gb for my system files & programs and an 80gb for games. No partitioning.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Usually not. I'm really just too lazy.

 

[SSP]

I have a 10gig partition for c drive and the rest are used for games/files

 

[freebee]

Partitioning large HDs make defragging much easier. Plus its easy to reload an OS and programs and still maintain an intact partition for movies and mp3s.

 

I partition my two 120 gig drives to make 4 partitions between them. The main reason is for organization.

 

[Viper GTS]

I have two 1200JB's in a raid 0 array, one 240 gig partition.

I hate partitioned drives.

Viper GTS

 

[wfbberzerker]

nope.

 

[Renob]

I have to WD 8mb buffer drives and have them both split in half.

 

[Yossarian]

Sometimes partitioning is good. Like these forums, they are partitioned so that questions like this can go in "general hardware" or "operating systems" where they belong 🙂 In the case of HDs I think partitioning is overrated and I don't do it or recommend it.

 

[isekii]

I split my 160gb 8mb cache to 30gb for windows and programs and 130gb for misc files.

 

[kt]

10gb boot partition, 10gb restore partition, and the rest is for program and files. If anything happens (service pack f'ing up my system, virii, etc) I just fire up Ghost and restore my system. This way, I don't have to reinstall my programs or software even after a virus attack because virii usually attack the boot partition where Windows is located.

 

[Xionide]

I got a wd 120gig 8meg se drive split so I have 2 gigs for windows xp and then the rest for pr0n.

-Xionide

 

I have a 120 GB drive for the OS and programs, and an 80 GB drive for music. No partitions needed. 🙂

 

[fluxquantum]

i partitioned my 80 gig into 4 partitions. multi-booting with 98, 2000, XP, and Linux 🙂

 

[isekii]

Originally posted by: Xionide
I got a wd 120gig 8meg se drive split so I have 2 gigs for windows xp and then the rest for pr0n.

-Xionide

that's a lot of porn

 

[ethebubbeth]

Heh i think i've gone a lil' overboard... My main drive is a 120gb divided into three equal partitions, first is for OS, second for programs, third for downloads. My second drive is an 90gb it has a 4gig partition and the rest is divided into halves. The 4gb is for my swap file, and the other two are for music and movies respectively

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: coldcut
Do you guys partition your large hard drive such as 120GB into smaller partition or leave it at with no partition?

Nope 🙂

 

[nightowl]

On all of my computers I make a seperate partition for the OS and the respective programs of about 5-15GB. The rest of the drive is made into one partition for storage. It is so much easier to reinstall Windows when you have your data on a seperate partition since you don't have to worry about losing any of your files.

 

[blakeatwork]

Nope...

Boot Drive: 20GB Quantum Fireball AS - Windows & Apps
2nd Drive: 60GB Maxtor - Storage for FTP
3rd Drive - 40GB Maxtor External 3000LE - Games & Patches
4th Drive - 80GB Maxtor External 5000LE - Currently Empty

 

[knivox]

Here's a good guide for setting up partitions.

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[Shawn]

I only got one 100GB drive so I partition it.