Favorite HD file structures/partitions? Thoughts on this?

[StompAWOT]

Recently upgraded my rig and now working with two internal HD's - one 300GB and one 120GB. Have considered getting a Raptor, but frankly I'm happy w/ how BF2 and my other games seem to be running so I've decided to do a final blow out of all my files & (attempt to) dial this in.

So anyways, the 300GB is a new Seagate and the 120GB is my existing WD. Historically I've done the following partitions:

C: - OS only (except for certain tiny programs that automatically install to C
D: - Programs (all programs)
E: - Files - Downloaded programs, pictures, music, video, etc.
F: - Emergency (left blank in case I need to reinstall to this partition after a crash so I can hopefully browse to other partitions to salvage files)

Any thoughts or opinions? My initial gut is as follows (though I may be a bit heavy on OS/Programs....

C: (Seagate) - OS: 60 GB
D: (Seagate) - Programs: 120 GB
E: (Seagate) - Files: 120 GB+/-
F: (WD) - Files: 100 GB
G: (WD) - Emergency: 20 GB+/-

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Hard drive configuration and hard drive status. I like being organized, obviously.

As far as your setup, I never understood the point of putting OS and programs on different partitions, as all of the programs have to be reinstalled anyway when you reformat, due to registry settings and the like. Other than that, looks good.

 

[StompAWOT]

Looks like you've got a few bytes on me ;-)

 

[StompAWOT]

I'm minutes away - any final words of wisdom / thoughts?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

(from previous post, not sure if you read it)
As far as your setup, I never understood the point of putting OS and programs on different partitions, as all of the programs have to be reinstalled anyway when you reformat, due to registry settings and the like. Other than that, looks good.

 

[StompAWOT]

Thanks - actually I never got to that last sentence. I've always been under the impression that loading up the OS w/ the program files slows everything down - not so? Urban legend?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

No... Moving the pagefile off of the same drive as the OS can speed things up however. I would set aside a partition on another drive just for scratch stuff (temp files, pagefile, etc).

 

[StompAWOT]

Great - now you go speaking a foreign language and lose me.

Sorry to be dense - how would I go about doing that?

 

[DelD]

I am going to bump this since I am curious too.

 

[aLeoN]

Doesn't the CD/DVD drives default to D:/E:? I guess you didn't set them as that. For me I use (Out of 250GB) 10GB C: for XP, F: for games (~117GB), G: for storage (Rest, ~110GB) and old school (pre-XP) games.

 

[Arcanedeath]

The way I personaly do it at least before I added more drives on my 250GB WD is 10GB for the OS and pagefile, 32GB Fat32 part for old stuff, disk recovery software dos tools ghost image file of my c: part, ect... 40gb part for games / programs (just makes it easy to find em and I get rid of games I don't play that often anymore) and the rest for storage, but thats just me

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: StompAWOT
Great - now you go speaking a foreign language and lose me.

Sorry to be dense - how would I go about doing that?

No problem. Easiest way to do it is get a registry editor type thing (Power Tools for XP works), and change things there. That way you don't have to mess with the registry. Stuff like chaning the scratch disk in Photoshop is just a setting, as it is for most programs (some call it a 'working directory / folder').

Originally posted by: aLeoN
Doesn't the CD/DVD drives default to D:/E:? I guess you didn't set them as that. For me I use (Out of 250GB) 10GB C: for XP, F: for games (~117GB), G: for storage (Rest, ~110GB) and old school (pre-XP) games.

Yes, it does default, but I have my optical drives setup as K: and L:. W:, X:, Y:, and Z: are memory stick readers and the like off of my Hardcano 13.

Here is a pretty good link on pagefile optimization, as well as changing it's location.

 

[birdpup]

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