Setting up new Hard Drive, gotta question

[nolovenohope]

I am setting up my Barracuda V I just got, and I want it all to be one big partition of 120GB. I downloaded Seagate's DiscWizard2003 and it took 2 minutes, and then said my partition/drive was all set. Is this good enough for me if I'm going to use the drive for storage, or should I do some more formatting to the drive?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

IMHO its better to make larger HD's multiple partitions so if something goes bad you dont lose everything on the drives.

 

[nolovenohope]

Originally posted by: WaTaGuMp
IMHO its better to make larger HD's multiple partitions so if something goes bad you dont lose everything on the drives.

So if I make it into 3 partions: F, G, H, lets say, each 40 GB. and G goes bad, I still will be able to access my data from F and H?

 

[Paulson]

If the hard drive goes bad all your partitions will be gone too...

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Originally posted by: Paulson
If the hard drive goes bad all your partitions will be gone too...

Yeah he is right but what I was saying was having multiple partitions with some for storage and some for your OS then if your OS goes bad you dont lose the info on the other partitions. Sorry about not being clear on what I meant.

 

[TheBDB]

Originally posted by: Paulson
If the hard drive goes bad all your partitions will be gone too...

That's not completely true. I had an IBM drive with two partitions, and something went wrong with my OS partition. When I would try to access the drive, it would start making a repeated clicking sound. I couldn't even reformat it. But the files on my data partition were fine.