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Help on Partitioning a 200GB HD

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Zarick

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I was gonna take advantage of the Seagate deal at frys and pick up their 200GB drive to replace my 20gig and 13gig maxtors. Right now I have my 13 gig setup as the primary OS drive with programs and the 20 gig setup for games.

I wasn't sure how to do the 200gig though. Since my 20 and 13 gig are only 2mb cache ata 66 drives I thought it best to just not use them anymore.

I was considering doing like 40gig for OS and programs (like office, money etc) and 160 gigs games, videos etc. But then I read a thing saying partitioning serves no purpose anymore. Now I have used partitions in the past if I wanted to format my main drive, but haven't formatted this computer in a year now.

So I need suggestions. Mainly its a family computer and most of my big files are games.
 
It is best to have as least as possible unless you ahve specific needs. I like having 2. The first for OS and any other software. The second is for MP3's, documents and other things like that. That way if I encounter a problem or just fell like reinstalling Windows all I need to do is reformat the first partition and I still have all my MP3's and everything.
 
That's not true. It used to be that formatting your partitions to sizes smaller than 2GB was more efficient. But that isn't the case anymore. However, if you want to do it for organizational purposes, that is perfectly fine. And in fact, I would highly recommend keeping your OS and your data partitions seperate. Most people od it on a different physical drive entirely, but a seperate partition works as well (especially with a brand new drive, as you shouldn't have to worry about the drive failing). I use a full 120gb hd for my OS, and everything else goes on another drive. I just sold 4 x 200gb hd's, so I had a partition for music, another for graphics, and another juts for storage. It all depends on how you want to do it.
Tas.
 
Originally posted by: KoolDrew
It is best to have as least as possible unless you ahve specific needs. I like having 2. The first for OS and any other software. The second is for MP3's, documents and other things like that. That way if I encounter a problem or just fell like reinstalling Windows all I need to do is reformat the first partition and I still have all my MP3's and everything.
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werd
 
Are there any arguments for staying with one 200gig partition? In some ways that is appealing, though I do worry how a OS reinstall would work with that.
 
Do not stay with 1 partition.

If your OS fails, you lose everything if you have to reformat.

I would partition into 3.

Leave 10 GB for OS only. Install vital apps there like Office, etc. Divide the other 2 equally.. 190 / 2 = 95 GB.

95GB for games/music/whatever you download =P
95GB for apps/other bs

If your OS fails, you keep your data but you reinstall OS.

My laptop: 60 GB => 8/24/24 (3 partitions).
Old desktop: 45GB => 5/5/5/28 (98SE, XP, Linux, Data)
Current Desktop: 10/75/75 (XP, games/webpages/graphics, music/downloads)
 
Originally posted by: Zarick
Are there any arguments for staying with one 200gig partition? In some ways that is appealing, though I do worry how a OS reinstall would work with that.
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Like mentioned if the partition gets corrupted or you want to reload your OS you loose everything. Not to mention trying to defrag your OS at 200gigs:frown:
 
Well.. how about then a 40gig for os/apps like office and money and 160 for games and crap... I dont know what I would use a 3rd partition for.
 
I usually never partition my drives... but I just got a new 250 gb drive and put my os on it... thinking about making the os and apps a 40 gb partition and the rest for storage, but I can just transfer data around if I need to reformat at any point (I have 610 gbs of storage on the pc and a few hundred gigs free so its not hard to move data... also I can back stuff up to dvd when I need to)
 
I got a 160 sata today. divide it in half (so now i have 3 80gb hdd's) one for my kids ipods . (the 3rd 80 came with comp)
 
I have my 120 GB HD Portitioned like this, 87 GB as my main OS and Programs and Games And Videos and Another D: 26 GB for Files I keep all the time that way I just have to format my C: and keep all the stuff on my D:

I ike to Keep 40 GB Free on my main c: at all time if I can help it.
 
Here's how I do my 200Gb drive:

10Gb C: - Windows only, nothing else gets installed there, apart from irritating programs that install without giving you the choice.
Rest - D: - Programs, videos, games, music.... you get the idea. When I reformat, I usually don't have to actually reinstall most "small" apps - just copy the folder full of shortcuts to the Start Menu and we're off.
Some programs, however, will require a reinstall. Still, it beats losing everything if Windows gets corrupted.
 
Originally posted by: Aisengard
You might want to get Partition Magic if you change your mind later on. Bloody useful it is.
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i second the motion for partition magic. it is possibly the most useful utility i have ever encountered.
 
Originally posted by: DLeRium
Do not stay with 1 partition.

If your OS fails, you lose everything if you have to reformat.

I would partition into 3.

Leave 10 GB for OS only. Install vital apps there like Office, etc. Divide the other 2 equally.. 190 / 2 = 95 GB.

95GB for games/music/whatever you download =P
95GB for apps/other bs

If your OS fails, you keep your data but you reinstall OS.

My laptop: 60 GB => 8/24/24 (3 partitions).
Old desktop: 45GB => 5/5/5/28 (98SE, XP, Linux, Data)
Current Desktop: 10/75/75 (XP, games/webpages/graphics, music/downloads)
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that is not true. i never partition my drives. i have had to reinstal my OS twice, and i didnt have to reformat! i just reinstalled the OS. that was it, you dont need a clean drive to install an OS.
 
Okay. I went with 50 and 150 just cause I am replacing two drives and I dont want to reinstall my programs. The 150 is pretty much gonna ba games and junk stuff with the 50 being os and serious programs. Thanks for all your advice.
 
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