Partitioning

[tboneuls]

Im about to add an 80GB WD Hard drive to my computer. I also have a 60GB Maxtor drive. Both are 7200RPM, Ultra ATA133. The WD drive has an 8MB cache, and for this reason I would like to use this drive as my primary drive. I would like to have a small partition for Windows + "trusted programs"(ie office, etc.) so that I can ghost to that drive pperiodically while maintaning the rest of my data. I would like some input on what kind of a partitioning scheme would be best for this situation. Thanks.

 

[gxsoon]

I am looking into the same thing and this is my plan: Partition the main HD to three, one for OS and programs, one for ghost image of the data data that needs to be backed up, the other for data that do not require back-up. On the other HDD, partition in two, one for data, and one for ghost image of main HD partition 1. This way you are using two drives and hopefully it will improve access time. Do not sure if this makes sense but if there is a guru out there please help.

 

[madthumbs]

I personally hate partitions. I prefer to just seperate Windows with a partition. I ran into a problem today with it being on a 6 gig partition, and trying to unpack a 4 gig rar file. There was not enough room on the OS partition to handle the file while it was being unpacked (even though that's not the partition I was unpacking to). Partition Magic gave me grief about resizing partitions. I had to switch the OS to fat 32, delete the other partition (kept getting errors when trying to merg/ resize/ convert). Then I got the deleted back to fat32, resized, etc... Partitions are a pain! Now I've got 20Gigs for OS.