Partition win2K Question

[Clocker]

This is an old topic but I need help.


I want to partition my drive to lessen defrag time and hopefully increase performance.

I am only going to use NTFS and I would like to split my drive to seperate appz, games, mp3s, and files I suppose.

So what should the reccommeded part size be?

I dont know. Also I think I wil be using Part Magic to Part my drive since I would lke to part my current drive that I am currently using.

Is their a site that would give me some type of guide.

Can someone help?

Clocker

 

[Chatterjee]

I don't have a guide but I think you should make the OS partition around 1 gig (simply because even if the initial install isn't that large, it can grow to be.)

Programs should generally be in a partition of their own. They just sit there and don't change that much so you shouldn't have to defrag that much.

MP3s, documents, and other dynamic stuff should be in a partition of its own. That stuff changes relatively constantly so you want to be able to defrag that stuff by itself..

Just a thought.

-S

 

[rigelproject]

OS partion should be about 5 gigs...you need space for SPs and for progs...o

 

[smp]

you can install programs on partitions other than the one that the OS resides on.

 

[Clocker]

Well since i have a 30gig HD I was thinking of spliting up the drive this way.

Win2k 5
Apps 10
Games 5
MP3 and DATA 5
CD IMage space for burning 5

is that okay?

 

[cmv]

Looks good to me but partitioning really depends on how you use your computer. What you have looks good though and I'd just go with that - you can refine it if one partition is a bit too small/large.

Good call on the CD burning partition. When I first got into burning a ton of cds I didn't have a partition for it and the result was tons of fragmentation (I think that was the #1 fragmenter). Personally I'd make my burning partion 2-3 gigs though - maybe you want to make the burn partition 3gb and add a couple gig to data?