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Do not partition if you are thinking to improve performance. Another
partition is still on the same spindle and you may only be increasing the
movement of the read'write heads.
Use a second drive, preferably on a second controller.
As for "huge" drives and partitions, I no longer have any drives smaller
than 160GB and most are 400GB. None of them are partitioned. My primary
home machine has about 1.5TB of storage. My point is that if I thought
partitioning into 20 or 30GB partitions was usefull I would long ago have
run clean out of drive letters.
"Sanford Aranoff" <aranoff@analysis-knowledge.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks.
>
> Actually, I wonder if there is any need to partition at all. Things are so
> fast that it may be fine to leave everything on a huge C: drive.
>
> Malke wrote:
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>> Sanford Aranoff wrote:
>>
>> > 80 G XP.
>> > Ran Partition Magic. Tried to make my C drive smaller, so that I can
>> > add more drives. "This partition crosses the 1024 cylinder boundary
>> > and may not be bootable." Maybe I should forget about spiltting up the
>> > drive into smaller drives. The idea was for me to use Drive Image to
>> > create and restore drives.
>>
>> Don't worry about the error message. It means that if you have older
>> operating systems, they might have difficulty in booting from the
>> partitions "further out". XP won't have this problem. Make sure you
>> have a version of PM that is designed to work with XP and that you have
>> backed up all your data first. PM is a good program, but as with
>> anything - stuff can happen.
>>
>> Malke
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>> "Don't Panic!"
>> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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