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Compnewbie01

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Okay I will be reformatting my 250GB soon and am wondering if I should do anything in particular. Such as should I use partitions? I am having a crashing problem (happens every two weeks and I need to reinstall Windows) and hope that this fixes it. Any suggestions to make an easy and simple reformat?
 
I would partition if you want to keep your data separate so that you don't have to back it up when you need to reformat again. Otherwise I see no need in partitioning it.


Your main concern should be figuring out why your system is crashing.
 
If reformatting your drive will fix your problem, I would partition a small say 10GB partition for the O/S and partition the remainder into 1 or 2 other partitions for your other stuff.
 
I try to encourage anyone that is considering partitioning a drive, to instead, just get another drive. The partition strategy really came out of the justified fear that an OS failure or bad beta install would take the rest of the system with it and data storage was expensive ($2/MB vs $.5/GB). BUT, we have not had Windows NT 3.1 or 3.5 for a long time now... 😉

But, if you like messing with betas, plan to install Vista anytime soon, want to keep some other stuff. and don't have any money for a 160-250GB drive (under $100), sure, why not partition it as you can format C: and keep your mp3s.
 
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It more likely you have an underlying hardware problem to sort out first. After that is resolved, you should tackle the partition debate in the fashion that suits you the best.
 
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