my proposed partition setup... opinions please!

[badboyeee]

im not sure which forum this goes to, it touches a lil bit of everything.. so i thought this was the best place

i just bought a 80gig hard drive and plan to create a few partitions on it.. heres how I plan to set it up:

Drive 1 (80gb Maxtor 7200rpm)
C = win98se 10GB <---will run games, kazaa, burn CD's
D = winxp pro 15GB <---will run office XP, photoshop, frontpage/dreamweaver, scanning
E = Downloads 10GB <---store apps, demo games, drvers, etc
F = MP3z 30GB <---store MP3z
G = Videoz 10GB <---store Videos/DIVX
H = Images/Docs 5GB <--store images, docs..

Drive 2 (30gb Quantun Fireball AS 7200rpm, i think this hard drive is about to die, starting to get more and more bad sectors everytime I scandisk):
J = Junk 10GB
K = Backup 10GB
L = Temp 10GB


is this too many partitions ???
also i may be able to get win2000pro..should I use that OS instead of win98se? the thing is, win98se has been so nice to me, i cant leave it! but if i go with 2000, i can run NTFS on everything instead of FAT32... dont know much of the benefits of that tho

my system:
athlon xp 1700+
fic an11 motherboard
512mb PC2100 ram
40x CD burner
ATI AIW 128PRO 32mb vid card
Diamond Monster MX300 sound

 

[amdskip]

I couldn't stand that many, just do it if thats what you prefer. No wrong or right way really.

 

[thirtythree]

I would say Win2k is definately a good choice. I personally wouldn't want to have my HD in that many partitions. I have 30GB for OS and programs and 50GB for file storage. Makes defragmenting quicker and reformatting much easier.

 

[notfred]

How about this:

Drive 1:
win98, 10gb
winxp, 10gb

stuff: 60gb

Drive 2:
stuff: 30gb


The way you have it set up now ia pain to maintain and a huge waste of space.

 

[Pastore]

I felt the nerdiness radiating from this thread in the other room, I had to come in to check it out for myself. Wow dude... Just, wow.

 

[yellowperil]

Personally I would make four partitions on the first drive - ~2GB just for 98, ~5GB just for XP, one for your 98 programs and another for your XP programs (NTFS). On the second drive I would just make one big partition. JMO

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: Beast1284
I felt the nerdiness radiating from this thread in the other room, I had to come in to check it out for myself. Wow dude... Just, wow.

lol

 

[Imported]

Put the mp3s/movies/etc in their own folder on say a 60GB partition, I'd say.

But 10GB for a movies/divx partition? Damn.. I have some anime that take 10GB alone.. :Q

 

[FoBoT]

too complicated, weed it down by a few

 

[Evadman]

I still remember when I put 6 partitions on a 2.1 GB drive on my packard bell. Wow, I never thought I would run out of room.

Whoops.

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: Evadman
I still remember when I put 6 partitions on a 2.1 GB drive on my packard bell. Wow, I never thought I would run out of room.

Whoops.

I remember that.. then I discovered mp3s..

 

[Sid59]

win98se - 2 gigs
XP - 8 gigs

junk = 70
junk = 30

do you REALLY need all those partitions?

if you do then i suggest ..

win98se - 2 gigs
XP - 8 gigs

junk = 48 partitions of 1.44 MBs
junk = 20 paritions of 1.44 MBs


edi - speeling

 

[yoda291]

IMO, putting win2k instead of 98se is redundant since you already have xp. As far as I can tell, xp is pretty much an update to 2k. They're both NT based and, as far as I can tell, there's no real difference between the two if you don't need some of the extras in xp like firewall/cd burning/driver rollback/compatibility mode. I have never needed these things since I usually have better or equivalent alternatives on my 2k system. I would keep the 98 partition if, and only if, you have applications that won't run in an NT/XP compatible environment. I keep a 9x system around just because sometimes I wanna play something old like duke3d or moo, but it's a low powered system.

My suggestion:
2-5 -- win98se
5-10 -- winxp
5-25 gigs -- application partition
rest -- data

win 9x part will prolly vary depending on how much use you think you'll get out of it
winxp will vary depending on how much you want to dedicate to system paging, temporary swap, etc
application will vary depending on how much space you expect your apps to take up

 

[Turin39789]

basically what everyone else is saying

give your os's a partition, then just make one other partition per drive for data.

Although with two drives, I like to create a partition on the first gig of the second on and set it aside for my windows swap file.