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Community weekly poll: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive?
- 5/4/06 10:43 AM
two partitions
by TreyTable - 5/5/06 9:54 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have two partitions. a small one for the OS, and a large one3 for everything else. I'm not the smartest person when it comes to computers, therefore a friend did this for me when I last reformatted the drive, saying it will work better. I have seen no improvement, but also no bad stuff either.
two partitions
by nextcase - 5/5/06 10:01 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
That's the way it was when I took it out of the box.
4 partitions
by jmc3855 - 5/5/06 10:32 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
1 - OS; 2 - Apps; 3- Working Data; 4 - Archive Data
This scheme prevents the OS, Apps and Archive Data partitions from becoming fragmented as quickly and the Working Data partition defrags quickly therefore I am likely to do it more often. Back-ups are also easier. It is even better if you have a second HD for your Archive Data, if drive 1 fails then you still have all the data on drive 2.
My Primary Drive has Two Partitions
by paul dexler - 5/5/06 10:37 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have two physical drives in my machine, divided into 5 partitions. Both drives are 160GB discs. Drive 0 is separated into C:/ and G:/, while drive 1 carries D:/, E:/ and F:/. I have an external drive that backs up C:/, D:/, and G:/. C:/ has all my programs, D:/ has all my data (word processing files, spreadsheets, etc.) and G: carries all my graphics files (digital photography, etc.) E:/ is used as a scratch file location for Photoshop and Studio, while F:/ is for exclusive use of the system swap file. It keeps everything discrete and neatly packaged.
I have logical drives from C: to O: across 3 physical HDDs
by zepper - 5/5/06 11:18 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
And only one is for Xandros Linux... For me it is a top level of my directory structure using the volume labels as memory aids (so I can find things easily).
. I think those who don't partition large drives (unless they are editing large video files or have other huge files) are either lazy or clueless.
I'm usually set up like this:
C: (a Primary partition) is for a Windows OS and critical utilities.
Next is the Linux space which is another Primary partn.
Next is the Extended partn within which I have a vatying number of logical drives (depending on drive size).
D: is for my main applications that I use all the time.
Next comes several scratch logical drives for building projects for burning.
Next comes a few logical drives for the Data that I create - at least one is for duplicating some important data from the others.
Then a logical drive for seldom used programs.
And finally there is a scratch partition on a separate physical drive from the Windows partition. With a little Registry editing you can isolate Temporary directories, etc. there which is to move routine disk writes away from your OS partition as much as possible. Helps to keep the OS partition safe and sound.
And I even have hidden free logical drive space left over that I can move around as needed (easily created with Partition Commander from VCom).
.bh.
Why have any partition?
by buud - 5/5/06 11:32 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Besides my two internal HDs, I have an 'ADS' 200GB external USB 'plug & play' HD, less than $100. Using 'ntbackup', everything that goes onto 'C' is backed up on external(H). I don't care whether it's important or not, the drive is so big I can go in any time and just clean it up, but in the meantime I have the comfort of knowing that except for the OS, everything is there in the event of a disaster. Just reformat and send the contents of (H) (after a virus scan), back over to (C).
Bud
2 Partitioners ergo protection my data files
by tigerwizards - 5/5/06 11:44 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have had more. But two are essential to make sure that programs are not sharing space with data and data can easily be found and backed up. The protection is that re-formtting a partition with Partition Magic does not format the other partitions onthe same drive.
Need to swap a drive to re-install Windows and software to another drive or partition is so easily done when the data partition (s) can be protected. It is also nice when you want folders to dominant and not data folders hiding insode the bins and work folder of the software. This is useful when a file can be used by mutliple programs. I use to have a partition just for music. But have since put all the music on an external hard drive. So the dektop carries a shortcut to the Hard Drive for musci files. Makes sharing file across multiple users and multiple PC's so nice. The parition for data acts like a network drive where a single copy of files are used by multiplt users. I use it this way between a Notebook and Destop. There is no need for some files to exist on all the PC's in a network and this way there are no versions to reconcile.
Partitions
by rodders465 - 5/5/06 11:51 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Two---cos they were there when I bought laptop. Cannot see why they are necessary but don't know how to reduce to one.
Rodders
Two, 40 GB each
by wygifi - 5/5/06 1:03 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I currently have two partitions, one for Windows/programs, and one for backup. All my documents are stored on my flash drive.
How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive?
by jamesbond3 - 5/5/06 1:05 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have 7 total partitions due to I have 2 physical drives. The first drive is only 60 GB and I cretaed 2 partitions: C and D. One for system and the other for programs. The second physical drive has 120 GB and I created 5 partitions so I could store data and used for video creation when I needed. It's also easy for back up and I could pull the 120 GB drive and plug it into another computer if the primary computer break.
Cheers!
2 Partitions on my Primary Drive
by builderbob - 5/5/06 1:39 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
The idea is to use a smaller partition for the Operating System and a few key applications.
I have XP Pro and Office Suite 2003 residing on the first partition along with a few other key applications
All other stuff gets dumped into the second partion or
the secondary storage drive.
Two now - maybe three later
by nate01pa - 5/5/06 2:34 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Right now I have two partitions: one for
Windows 98SE and another for Windows XP Pro. I may soon add a third for Linux.
One, because I have 3 hard drives
by amzams - 5/5/06 3:45 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Partitions only work so well. I decided on physical partitioning- 1- 150gb raptor primary drive with windows and all my programs on it, 2- 40 gb storage drives, one for music, the other for downloads and general storage. At some point, the two older drives will go, and I'll get a second 150gb raptor drive.
I agree.......
by buud - 5/5/06 5:57 PM In reply to: One, because I have 3 hard drives by amzamsI agree. Physical HDs are so cheap and so big, I can't see any reason to chop up a 120GB into small pieces.
When a HD fails, that is, won't even turn, (I've got a 120Gig Maxtor and 80GB Samsung that don't spin anymore), then any partitioning would have been pointless.
The cheapest quote I've had for retrieving data from a non functioning HD was $400, and went up from there.
Besides, one full length movie is 8GB and I sometimes don't get around to burning them right away, I have four waiting now.
Given the simplicity of installation and the cheap cost of HDs and their size, I can't understand the need for partitions or even CD backups. Five years ago maybe, but not today.
Bud
How Many Partitions - Four
by nscave - 5/5/06 3:47 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I use multiple partitions on all my drives to separate data and to make backups easier. For example one partition is the operating system with little else on there except for the email progam, firewall and other things that are essential.
The next partition has all my programs on it and nothing more. Another partition I use as a working partition. It has videos, pictures and this is where I would put iso files if I were preparing a burn. The final partition on that drive is where I download files to, or put files that friends send to me.
This way my operating system is relatively safe so long as I take the usual precautions. Unless I install something new there is little need to backup that partition and the one with the programs very often. Keeping downloads separate allows me to check for less than ideal files, virus, trojans, etc.
Even in cases where drives have failed, and they do, I have been able to recover data from most partitions without losing much. I have four drives on my main machine, also with multi partitions. The others for example contain my web site material.
Depending on what your purposes are, I highly recommend at least several partitions on a large drive.
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