4 partitions on a hard drive

[horseman54]

I need some constructive help here ! I just got a new hard drive , 80gig, and want to partition it into 4 sections. C= operating system -- D = Apps -- E = Docs and back up -- F = Pictures and Music. Is this OK or is it really getting nit picky ? Looking for some constructive comments.

[Pelletgun]

There is nothing wrong with what you want to do. I have done
the same thing my self. The size of the partitions is purely personal. The advantage of this is should windows become corrupted. You can reinstall the operating system and not lose any of your valuable data.


As a side note should you install Windows 2000 or Windows XP using the NTFS table. Later on should you try to format C: with a DOS boot disk you will format your D: drive instead.

[Jupiter2k]

Yes the number of partiton is a personal choice

I have 3 Harddisk
1 x30G
1 x 60G
1 x17G

and altogether have 8 partiotions

all my application are on a 20 G partition
all games also on a 16 G partitionon

my system dual boot xp and WINME

Other partitions are multimedia and backup

I agree with Pelletgun
make sure program and O/S are in diffrent partitions

put in this way when I ghost my XP partition with compression its only
about~480M

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[RaSta]

good piece of advise is to use powerquest partitionmagic v7.1 or higher (if you are running windows that is)
Just start with one partion install OS install partitionmagic and make your partions as you like.

You can resize and create/delete partions. Nice thing of the resize is that you don't have to format and that way don't loose any data. This program has some nice features like changing driveletters, multiboot, ...

Btw set your clustersize small 4k or so will let you make some better use of the harddiskspace.

Greetz
RaSta

[Adodikan]

i have my hhds partitioned the exact same way.
creepy

[horseman54]

I finally got my 80 gig hard drive and it took me 2 tries , but I put 4 partitions of 20 gigs each using only the XP CD. Formatted using NTFS and the rest is history.