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MarkJH
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 03 November 2007 : 13:10:39
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I've just bought myself a copy of Vista Home Premium and I intend to install it on a 500Gb drive I've had lying around for a while. Now, should I partition this drive (presumably, yes) and if so, how big should the partition be and what else apart from Vista should I think about installing to this partition, if anything.
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
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Posted - 04 November 2007 : 06:05:23
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I recommend using a 50 gigabyte system partition, and one or more data partitions for the rest of the disk.
The system partition will be getting the profiles (\users\ folders) and the programs, plus the pagefile and spoolerfiles. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Posted - 04 November 2007 : 07:05:14
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I've seen too many divergent opinions on this. Incurring the risk of being wrong, I don't see many advantages to partition a disk, except for the ease of maintaining it less clutered. Using more than one disk, maintaining, let's say, the paging file in a different disk, may speed performance.
Other than that I go with a single partition. I try to keep it defragmented, having bought what seems to be one of the best defragmenters in the market (PerfectDisk), so that performance is kept at the best possible level. I use a good backup app that allows me to image the whole disk or just backup documents or other folders of interest, so I can get whatever info I need when moving to a new system, or just recovering the system from an unpleasant occurrance.
I find that managing multiple partitions is just too much trouble. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 November 2007 : 07:44:57
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| I would tend to agree with rui too, I see no real advantage in splitting it up either |
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balexandre
Junior Member
Denmark
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Posted - 04 November 2007 : 08:02:36
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my main reason of split my hard drive is a simple one...
as a developer I often do a quick format a install all over again, and having it 2 or more (I always have 3) partitions help me doing this cause I always use a 2nd partition to put all my documents and current projects (as well a backup in a external HD), the 3rd partition is only for games and downloads
having a 500Gb disk, in my opinion u should have the C: with at least 50Gb, split one more in 50Gb for documents, projects and so on, and the other 400Gb to do whatever you want.
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if I had a SATA 500Gb HD I would do other thing...
I would buy an external cheep 250 or 200 External SATA HD with USB/Firewire connection, and then I would replace that HD with your 500Gb and put the 200/250 HD in the computer, so you will have a cheap 500Gb external HD and in the PC, the 200/250 HD, that is more than enough this days, except if you do Video editing.
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MarkJH
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phy1729
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 04 November 2007 : 11:33:17
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| Well it depends on what you want to do with it. If you constantly reinstall as in balexandre's case or have multiple OSes or have multiple users and want to keep them separate or etc. Now if you give more information their may be a bigger argument one way or another but the partitioning argument is close to the Xhtml or Html 4.01 Strict argument it all depends on preference and your situation. |
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MarkJH
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United Kingdom
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
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Posted - 05 November 2007 : 05:18:03
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For me the choice to go for partitioning is the same as what balexandre sais : formatting is pretty easy if your data is not on the same disk as your system.
I've moved the Users folders off to the second partition, and use a 320 gigabyte external disk to backup only that partition. This is now very straightforward, opposed to when it's on the same disk as the system where I then would have to find out which folders to backup and which not.
If I now format the system disk, I don't loose any valuable info. |
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