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To Partition or Not To Partition

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cpotter

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Just posted this topic on the hardware forum, but may be better suited for here. Sorry for the duplicate post.

Setting up my new system. I'm a newbie to building but have fairly good knowledge base. I've installed an AMD Athlon 64 2800+. Have bought a new Seagate IDE 160GB drive and I'm using an older Maxtor 20GB drive as a slave. I'm about to begin installing Windows XP on the 160GB drive. I was planning on using just one partition on this drive. Are there any pros/cons to using multiple partitions on this drive. The other 20GB HD will be used primarly for crucial data backup. Thanks for the help. Chad
 
I don't usually think it's worth the hassle. But having a partition for the OS can come in handy if you have to format.
 
I never partitioned before, but when I reformat over Christmas break this year I'm going to. I run 2- 80Gb drives in Raid 1. I'm going t set up a 15-20Gb partition for the Windows Install and programs and the rest will be for storage. That way when I want to reinstall Windows in the future I don't have to format the entire disk to do a clean install, just the smaller partition.
 
I always partition............i use front partition for OS and back for dump file..........that way if i have to format the OS then i dont loose all the stuff i got on the back

Good luck,

Laffctx
 
Thanks for all the help. I went ahead and partitioned the drive into a 20GB block for Windows XP and 140GB for my data. Thanks. Chad
 
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