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Hard Drive Partitioning Question

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Carbo

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Running XP Pro. I have an 80G disk I need to partition. So far, all I have is the C drive, 15G's for the OS. When I go to the Disk Management program, I see that the C drive is a primary partition. Now, I have the option of setting up additional primary partitions, or an extended partition and logical drives.
What's the difference, and is one better or more efficient than the other?
I'm planning on maybe three more partitions of 10 to 15G's each, with the remainder left as Free Space for when I may need it.
Thanks.
 
you make the logical drives in the extended. so just make the extended partition the rest of the disk. then make your logical partitions on the remaining space however big you want.
 
I agree. One only needs extra primary partitions when installing multiple Operating Systems. So make the rest of your drive one Extended Partition and create as many logical drives inside that as you care for.
. Let me recommend at least three: one for your programs, one for data and one of about 2GB for your swap file and /temp /tmp directories - that keeps a lot of disk reads/writes out of your OS partition. Make it 4GB and you could also move the /TempInternetFiles directory there as well - has to be done in the registry I think. I also usually make another of about 1 GB for gathering files to burn to CD or to use for intermediate CD burning image files.
. Ask in another message how to move those items into the new Logical Drive if you don't know, as I'm not sure with XP - I don't use it.


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Thanks for the feedback, gents. My old PC had a similar setup: One primary partition for the OS. The other three partitions were all logical drives on one extended partition. One for my programs, one for my files and important data, and one for music files. I'm looking to do the same with this new disk.
I hadn't thought of a small partition for the swap file and temp files. I'll have to tread slowly with that, though, since now I'm gettin' in over my head. 😕
 
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