jwl812 0 Posted November 21, 2001 Going to reload XP, can anyone provide an opinion on how many partitions to use. I have read, 1 for the OS and 1 for apps. I have a 40gb hd and need some constructive advice. Thanks. Share this post Link to post
Brian Frank 0 Posted November 21, 2001 You don't have to, but I suggest the following setup C:SWAPFILE 1.5GB NTFS, D:WINXP 5.5GBNTFS,E:OTHER 33GB NTFS. The logic here is placing the swapfile at the front of the drive, then have Windows and serious apps (like office, photoshop,etc.) in the Windows drive. Then have a crap-load of space for other stuff: games, mp3, w4r3z;)... This way, when windows gets fscked up, you can just reformat the windows and swap partitons and just have to reinstall your games rather than reconfigure everything and lose all your saved games. There will be a zillion different responses to this question, but this is an example of how I have one of my machines. The other one has a nice 80GB RAID 0 NTFS drive. And do use NTFS, it can save yer arse if something fouls up--just don't mess with it when it's trying to fix your system back up. Share this post Link to post
CrazyKillerMan 0 Posted November 21, 2001 Quote: C:SWAPFILE I want to do this...but with a raid array...figure it would be the same way? and wondering how you throw the swap to that particular HD partition. But...I would definatly go along with Brian with the NTFS thing also....you could throw an extended partition on there and throw linux on too. Share this post Link to post
Cynan 0 Posted November 21, 2001 Its all personal choice and to me, its all about what you want to do and how you want it to 'look'. If I just had one 40GB HD and was only going to run one OS, then I'd break it up into two. That would then allow you to store all of your settings and personal data on the second one and if/when you need to reformat or reinstall your O/S, then you don't lose anything important. It would also give you a place to ghost your primary partition too for a quick and easy restore job. I'd have the main partition as NTFS, and the second as FAT32 (so you can access it easily from DOS if soemthing goes wrong with NT - though you can get programs/drivers to read NTFS drives from a DOS environment). I do something similar atm. If you are going to or thinking about having a muitple boot system thought, then I'd recommend having a thrid partition around 10MB thats just FAT and having something like System Commander residing on it to manage it all. I say that because in the past setting up multiple boots at a later date can be a pain if an O/S is on the same drive. --Cynan. Share this post Link to post
jwl812 0 Posted November 21, 2001 Thanks for the replies. I will try 2 different partitions. One for the OS and some common apps and the other for games and mp3s, etc. Thanks for the advice everyone. Share this post Link to post
CrazyKillerMan 0 Posted November 21, 2001 o....btw on the NTFS comments....you can only read files in linux when u mount an NTFS partition. If you are a linux buff, throw on fat32 for your non-os partitions Share this post Link to post
Marktait 0 Posted November 21, 2001 I have a 40GB and i have it split up into 5. C:\ Windows 4.5GB D:\ Apps 10GB E:\ Games 13GB F:\ Work 5GB G:\ Julie (my mams drive) 5GB But it is just personal choice. --------------------------------------- 1.2AMD Athlon Thunderbird Gigabyte 71XE4 M/Board 512MB PC133 Hyundai RAM NVIDIA 64MB GeForce 2MX200 AGP Seagate 40GB 5400Rpm ATA/100 HDD Lite-On 16/10/40 BurnProof ReWriter 40x Compaq CDRom Drive 36x Creative CDRom Drive Hauppage PrimioFM WinTV/Radio Card Creative SoundBlaster 128PCI NetGear 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter - cable connection Blackwidow 648 USB Scanner Epson 580 USB Printer WindowsXP Professional Corporate Platinum Edition WindowsXP Plus Pack! OfficeXP Professional with FrontPage Publisher XP ---------------------------------------- Share this post Link to post
FogEater 0 Posted November 23, 2001 I have two 40gb hard drives connected to the raid controller. I have the HD split into 9 partitions (about 10gb each). They're all FAT32, I'll probably switch to NTFS soon. C:\ D:\ E:\ F:\ G:\ H:\ I:\ J:\ K:\ Everything works just fine. Share this post Link to post
clutch 1 Posted November 23, 2001 Wow, I am lazy and just use a single partition for my 20, 25, 30, and 40GB harddrives on my workstations (NTFS, of course). I always use servers for storage, so formatting the entire partition is never a problem. Share this post Link to post
Cynan 0 Posted November 23, 2001 I keep all my partition at one size two.. but if you have only one disk, then its handy to have another place to move stuff around too. As for the swap partition, thats probably a good idea... never done it myself though. Share this post Link to post