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.