Community weekly poll: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive?
- 5/4/06 10:43 AM
4 Partitions, 3 Volumes currently in use
by gcgoodwin1 - 5/5/06 4:14 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I currently have the following set-up on my laptop's only internal drive...
Internal HD
C: 12 GB - Operating System (Win XP Pro)
E: 3 GB - Paging File
F: 35 GB - Data
: 6 GB - Unallocated
The below are not partitions of the internal HD, but are included for detail.
Internal DVD Burner
D:
External HD
G: 300 GB - Misc Data, Older PC Drive Images, Archived ISOs
H: 35 GB - IOMega REV Drive - Uses 35 GB removable disks
I - Z: Temporary "Virtual Drives" for archived ISOs
C:
I tried setting the C: volume to 6 GB when I first started setting up different partitions... it worked fine, but I wanted to keep the OS and regular program files on the same partition and some of my larger regular programs take 3 to 5 GB to install. I settled for 12 GB which will compress to 4 GB (to take an image of volume C) using the Rev Drive and IOMega's imaging software.
E:
I used the default paging file size of 150% RAM; I have 2 GB of RAM so I set the paging file to 3 GB (I'll never need that much for the paging file, but I have the extra space so I figured I'd use it).
F:
A little over 40 GB was left after the above changes so I set 35 GB for data storage. The "Data" volume contains "My Documents" which includes the standard Pics, Audio and Video along with misc docs/files and the setup files/ISOs needed to reinstall or use all current programs. If it's something important, a copy goes to an external drive, a REV Disk and/or a DVD archive.
Unallocated:
I kept 5.85 GB free so I can set up a customized restoration partition... I started putting something together but never found the time to sit down and figure out the details to make this work. I have my Windows Installation slip-streamed so I don't spend an hour downloading hotfixes when I need to reinstall the OS, but I'll probably end up using something like Acronis True Image 8.0 to create the customized restoration partition.
Four, Why? To separate the Porn of course!
by cybermonkey - 5/5/06 4:57 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have 4 partitions. One Primary (OS), Music (itunes), Multimedia (videos), and a shared partition which I hope to make internet accessible. My guests can only see the OS and Shared partitions. I like to keep my porn private.
Partitions
by hrmays - 5/5/06 5:00 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
2 same reason as AMAR. Im lazy. Not his phrase lol.
SIx currently
by Zouch - 5/5/06 5:37 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Primary 1 my personal "production" system
Primary 2 my personal test system, for testing patches, new software, etc.
Primary 3 "Vanilla" system for use with clients (I'm an independent consultant)
Logical 1 my private data
Logical 2 my public data shared with clients
logical 3 private client data
It's a laptop, so there is only one drive. On my desktop, these are split across two physical drives, one for me, one for clients.
Z.
5 partitions and good reason
by ReSpaces - 5/5/06 6:14 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
part.1 has xpsp2 and software directly related to hardware. This keeps the partition under 3gbites that is backed up to a bootable DVD.
part.2 has programs like Office suite, photoshop, Money, TurboTax; all of these add a minimal amount to your OS part. and personal data backed up as needed.
part.3 has antivirus/spyware, instant messaging, email, fileshareing etc.
part.4 music,music videos in various formats
part.5 pictures, movies, home videos
you will notice a big advantage to partitions when you defrag assome of the movie and music files are large are difficult tomove around when defraging.
Also, when restoring your oS from your bootable DVD, your personal info is still in place for the programs on the other partitions and will only need updating from the last backup.
Three
by Bob-san - 5/5/06 6:33 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have a total of three partitons on my hard drive. I have a total of 2 hard drives (80gb and 8gb). The 80gb has 1 partition for WinXP, and the 8gb has 2 partitions for Ubuntu Linux (Swap and Storage). So three.
Partitions
by morninglory - 5/5/06 7:47 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Duh, what's a partition?
partitions
by mohammad anany - 5/5/06 8:01 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
i had only two partitions c and d drive .but some days back i used partition magic and now i have 4 partitions in the drive.
2 partitions:- 1st for OS+APPs 2nd for data - can format C
by VAPCMD - 5/5/06 8:22 PM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
if necessary without risking loss of data.
Also have 2nd HDD with images of C: and D: for quick image backups and restores, as necessary.
VAPCMD
4 HDD Partitions
by couchboy24 - 5/6/06 1:09 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Presently I have 4 partitions, 1 for OS, 1 for Program Files, 1 for Documents (Data), and 1 for Multimedia. I prefer it this way for effective housekeeping on my HDD.
Two Partitions are good
by r21339 - 5/6/06 2:14 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I always use two partitions for Windows machines and three only for a specical situtation.
With two partitions, you can backup your "Documents and Settings" to the second partition. If Windows gets really corrupted, you can replace it without danager to your documents and settings. Also with two partitions, you can install a second Windows installation and have a dual boot menu. This is a good idea if your kids continue to get a lot of spyware. You can keep your side clean.
I use three partitions only when considering Linux on one of the partitions.
Partitions on Hard Drive
by simongary - 5/6/06 2:17 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I have two, the second and larger Partition I keep for 'My Documents' and any other data that will not be effected if my 'C' Partition has a problem. I also have an external HD as further backup.
Harddrive partitions
by ENANSEE - 5/6/06 4:41 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
Just wanted to say this came forum came at a good time I found out my hard drive was partioned by accident because my computer had slowed to a crawl I did a disc defrag and it showed this one small partition full. All the answers were very helpful. As I just purchased a new computer and my old one was 10 years old I have a lot of catching up to do.
Number of Partitions
by erabino - 5/6/06 7:01 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
I currently use 3 partitions and have for years. 1- The System. 2- Data files for programs that allow you to store data in its own location. 3- The rest of the drive for everything left over. Also have a second identical ATA drive that the first one is backed up to weekly.
James
Four (4)
by - 5/6/06 8:12 AM In reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett
C:\ Windows system & programs
D:\ Archives & Games
E:\ Movies
F:\ Music
This is on a 160GB hard drive. Each partition is 40GB.
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