Community weekly poll: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive?
- 5/4/06 10:43 AM
How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive?
by Marc Bennett - 5/4/06 10:43 AM
How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? What are your reasons for having these partitions?
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
More than five (why so many?)
What are you talking about?
Five right now...
by John.Wilkinson - 5/4/06 4:20 PM
In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have two drives set up in my primary system which I rely upon equally, so I'm going to ignore the master/slave settings and consider them both.
At the moment I have five partitions:
1.) Windows XP Professional SP2- Primary
2.) Windows XP Professional SP2- Secondary
3.) Windows XP Professional x64- Testing
4.) Used by Microsoft Virtual PC 2004, storing multiple virtual machines.
5.) General bulk storage for fresh downloads and files waiting to be burned.
Of course that is all subject to change, and doesn't include my other systems running versions of Windows and distros of Linux. 
John
5 for good reasons !
by pissed-off - 5/5/06 7:13 AM In reply to: Five right now... by John.Wilkinson
I separated my drives for some good reasons. #1 when restoring, you do not need too restore your entire photo album to get your PC to boot. Programs and data files do not belong together for many reasons.
A go-back type hard disk time machine should never have access to your data files AND your programs at the same time.
My partitions;
#1 = C drive is for XP and the operating systems and programs.
#2 = D-Drive is my DATA drive. here resides MyDocuments and all my files that need to be backed up, including SYA files such as my contacts and favorites lists and my cookies I want or need. (about 8 cookies at last count)
I also keep all my odd downloads here. some virus scanning and work related programs. the programs are installed on the C: but the ZIP is here
I also keep my e-mail here as that is data as well.
And the properties or configuration files for my programs.
#3 = E drive is my picture storage. here are all my photographs. Anyone who backs up a program and data drive AND their photos is, in my opinion silly. The photos belong on their own CD for obvious reasons.
#4 = F drive. my archival drive that has data from my very first computer as well as some files and programs I've collected along the way. mostly old DOS utilities and some ancient programs that I use now and again for odd reasons. Anyone remember Lucid ? a TSR spreadsheet ?
#5 = G drive, my buffer drive that holds data before writing to a CD. this is my personal preference as the newer burner programs have good file management.
it also holds my scans and camera downloads. I delete and crop here, then copy to the proper place.
I can delete the contents with no worries.
Woops. I said I have 1 partition meaning the partition clea
by kearneyiteNIBC - 5/7/06 4:25 PM In reply to: Five right now... by John.Wilkinson
Woops. I said I have 1 partition meaning the partition cleaves my disk into two pieces...I think i goofed in my answer--I shoulda said two partitions. My pc guy did it for me for his own reasons. I just figure he knows what he is doing.
three
by ythe1300 - 5/4/06 6:24 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
OSX.4
OSX.3
Ubuntu
maybe I'll reformat for more later.
computer guru
by jayfin - 5/4/06 8:43 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
who built my computer said that with 200GB of space I should at least partition it into 2 parts of 100GB each, I am not sure why but that is what was done. I have plenty of space left on the main partition where I keep my software but have already filled the 100GB of space for my own stuff. I have 3 internal hard drives and 3 external hard drives with a total of over 800GB of space and most of that has been filled. I am going to need advice as to what I should do about increasing this amount without too great an expense. I still have 40 hours of VHS tapes to download and over 200 hours of cassette tapes and old 33 and 45 records to rip or download to my hard drive.
Add an extrnal drive
by WilliamKazak - 5/5/06 5:19 AM In reply to: computer guru by jayfinI have four drives in my computer and three external drives which I can use as necessary for backups or for more storage for movies or pics.
This is Insane!
by zepper - 5/5/06 11:24 AM In reply to: computer guru by jayfinNo need to have so much stuff on line. How much of that stuff do you actually look at enough to justify having it on HDDs? Don't tell me you're into illegal file sharing... <rolls eyes>
Burn it off onto optical media.
..bh.
(NT) Agree.
by Stan Chambers - 8/14/06 9:18 PM In reply to: This is Insane! by zepperOne Partition
by davidvh2 - 5/5/06 1:10 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have one partition simply because if the HDD goes south, then no matter how many partitions it had on it, they're all unacessable. The answer is to have more HDD's which I have.
One partition works for me!
by WilliamKazak - 5/5/06 5:21 AM In reply to: One Partition by davidvh2I have one partition on my first HD now because "my programs" and "my documents" keeps expanding.It is hard to judge beforehand how large to make a partition.I also have a total of four HD's in the computer.
Why 2 Partitions
by JoeHark - 5/5/06 1:20 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Hi all, I have two partitions on my hard drive the first holding the operating system and office etc... the second has all my files (it's formatted as FAT32) so if the operating system dies (as it does occasionally!) I don't lose all my files.
OS crash isn't always a catastrophe
by pigonthewing - 5/5/06 1:34 AM In reply to: Why 2 Partitions by JoeHarkIf the operating system dies, you don't lose all your files normally. And if the drive itself takes a crash, it's not going to matter how many partitions you have.
In the event of an OS crash, pull the drive and mount it in another computer, even through a USB interface similar to what you find on external drives. Pull the data, reformat, and rebuild.
Only 1
by BobB - 5/5/06 1:25 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have only 1 partition. Partitions are a pain to me as I cannot remember where I put things and then ahve to search.
I ghost my hard drive every week after defragging it thoroughly and find one partition is not really a problem.
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