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by ronsheets - 5/7/06 12:21 PM

In Reply to: How many partitions do you have on your primary hard drive? by Marc Bennett

1. Windows XP Pro (Primary)
2. Windows 2000 Pro
3. Files to burn (largest)
4. Backup up Data Drive (2nd HDD)
5. Pagefile

I change this around sometimes depending on what OS I want to play with or test. I use Partition Magic to do this and have lost data from resizing or moving a partition a couple of times. Of course, it was backed up first with Drive Image. Love these 2 programs.

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Why So Many Partitions?

by glorfindel - 5/7/06 2:03 PM

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These are my partitions:
C: (Active) Windows XP
C: (Hidden) Windows 98.
(The following are all logical drives)
D: Swap.
Originally, on my 1992 and initially my 1995 computer, this was OS/2. It was OS/2 that originally started me down this route; it was tough in those days (no PartitionMagic), but on the other hand my 1992 computer was my first PC and I didn't have much accumulated ''stuff''. I keep this as my XP Swap drive because hopefully with my ''slim'' C drive there won't be too much extra head movement, and I want to preserve my organization pattern.

E:Programs.
Instead of c:/program files. Less churning of C: hopefully, unfortunately much still gets put on the C: drive even when you specify E: at install time.

Also: I install programs under both XP and win98, with just a single copy of the stuff that goes to E:
Drawback: Can't use NTFS on other than C: (XP), unsafe to use it on C: (XP)

F: Data.
But I HATE the way M$ will not let you put Favorites on any drive, like My Documents and Outlook.

G: Images (big ones, like 50MB from my Nikon Coolscan 5000).

H: CD buffer

I: Spare

I am so glad that there are still alternatives to PartitionMagic, because it is very pricey for something that I only use once in a blue moon, and I am ''overlapping'' my computers now that I have a laptop and use networking. Unfortunately, I believe PartitionMagic now has the dreaded ''product activation''. My copy is the last version out of PowerQuest, so it is a few years old now.

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I think I have 2 partitions

by ucphenom82 - 5/8/06 5:00 AM

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I have a "c" and "d" drive. The D drive is where all the computer stuff is that will allow me to take it back to factory settings ect. Unfortunatley I can't gget into it to change the amount of space it needs. The C drive is where all my programs ect are.Te D drive is proected and I havnt figued out how to unprotect it as of yet. Oh I have XP, HP. And HP tells me it is there to protect it from me. lolol

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???????????????????

by michael0344 - 5/8/06 6:45 AM

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What do you mean by a partition??????????????????
Is it each individual folder ( C:/* )
or each indivudual hard drive

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Neither

by MichaelF - 5/9/06 4:56 AM

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Hi (weird name)

It is neither a folder or a seperate hard drive. Partitioning is a way of breaking up your physical hard disk into 1 or many logical drives. Each partition can then be used for many different purposes such as organisation or seperate file systems. Each partition shows as a seperate drive in my computer even though they are on the same physical drive.

Michael

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How many partitions?

by tls8 - 5/8/06 10:57 AM

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I keep one partition for my primary drive and keep my operating system files on it.

I also keep a large 2nd harddrive where I keep my document and picture files and since I've lived through a couple of harddrive failures, I also keep backup images of my drive C.

That gets me up and running quickly without having to reload all the operating system files and patches.

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Think saftey net/Backup facilitators

by csc9710 - 5/8/06 1:42 PM

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I learned (hard way)that it is beneficial for me to have one 20Gb C: drive for operating system files and for applications that just have to use C: drive for installation. Music: is a 40Gb home my library for CDs and PC music downloads, Data: 10Gb is for word processing, and misc. output data files, Programs: 60Gb is for downloaded saved programs, Pictures: 30Gb is home for ...,
Movie: holds 80Gb of movies and MCPC tv programming.

These partitions save me time when searching for data, or programs, or whatever I searching for. Then there's the real benefit of being able to survive a system crash after a system restore without the headache of searching for or recreating data records and/or re-installing everything. Sure somethings you never fully recapture, but time consumming stuff is alive. After a system restore to factory conditions you can generally get busy in short order. Only your C: drive and its contents will have to be adjusted rather than Data:, or any of your other partitions. If I have to deal with a 20Gb C: restore, I'd rather do a 20Gb C: instead of a 250Gb C: restore.

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True?: Large partitions eat extra space

by robstak - 5/8/06 5:13 PM

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I remember hearing a long time ago, that you should always partition your drives because the larger the partition the more dead space on the drive because each byte or file takes up more space or something to that effect. I think I also heard that that is not true anymore.

Does anyone know what I am talking about? and did NTFS do away with wasted space?

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HD Partitions.

by bo1 - 5/8/06 6:04 PM

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i have dual boot, linux + swap as well as xp pro which holds os and programs only. all data, downloads, music etc is stored on second ntfs partition. which makes backing up ata to external device easy.

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number of partitions 4

by icu222much - 5/9/06 2:35 AM

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I have good reason to have 4 partirtions. I keep my operating system on one,applacations on another,download on the third,music and games on fourth. then I make four folders on my desk top to easily acces them .no clutter. that way if I hasve a problem with the opperating system and i need to reformat and reinstall windows again.i don't loose all the rest of my programs,just the short cuts.

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Two Partitions Keeps it simple and safe.

by dlhickey - 5/10/06 10:22 AM

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I use one partition to keep my operating system and system files and the other holds all my important documents and backup files.

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two of course

by Fernando Yamaguchi - 6/6/06 10:36 PM

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1 for my windows operating systm..1 for my files archive...why need so many partition?..u can make a folder@partition in the other partition..:)

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The reason, I have 5 partitions on my HDD.

by Shikshan - 8/12/06 10:39 AM

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I have an 80 GB HDD which has five equal size(~16 to 19 GB) partitions, C(active), D, E, F and G. C has windows XP(~1.3 GB), Documents and settings(~500 MB), Program Files(~3 GB) and a folder(~1 GB) for transient file holding operations. There is thus ~70% free space on the drive, which is devoted to Virtual Memory. The last factor, in conjunction with a 256 MB DDR RAM, has been found to give hang/fragmentation-free performance. Drive D is mostly allocated to Graphics. E is left totally unoccupied for the purpose of Test downloads of Softwares and Backup during formating of individual Drives. The F Drive is alloted to Archiving Documents, Softwares, Drivers and Mail, prior to uninstallation, deletion or external Storage and is actually the most active partition, functionally. File corruption, cross-linking, outdating and disappearance is a well known computer phenomenon and the G Drive holds the copies of such files together with Compilation of CD and DVD Data for Reference in both the Nero compatible and Frame-Capture formats. The foregoing Partitioning and Classified Storage systematisation has helped me a lot in tensionfree and fast multiferious computing tasks and still leaves ~40% free space on the HDD.

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(NT) tambolivasim

by tambolivasim - 12/31/08 5:09 AM

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One

by FrankQC - 1/20/09 6:24 AM

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One partition. Booting a lot of OS in VMware.

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by UlrichStern - 4/27/10 2:09 PM

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I only have one right now, but that's because I just wiped my computer about an hour ago.

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number of partitons I have

by PhreakkyPhroggy - 11/20/11 7:13 AM

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I have two on my laptop xp/xp

I have two on my desktop Windows 7/ Ubuntu 11.10

I also have a Virtual pc with Ubuntu for experimental purposes.

Reasoning is Keep It Simple Stupid (K.I.S.S.) a very good rule of thumb.

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question

by pit272106 - 1/17/12 6:02 AM

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how many partitions required for 10GB hard disk?

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Depends on your needs.

by Kees_B - 1/17/12 6:07 AM

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There's no general rule.

Kees

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