Partitioning

[Guest]

I have a 40 gig hard drive, and I want to partition it.

First question is:

Should I partition it?

What size should I make the partitions?

And what should I use to partition it?

I have heard good and bad stories about Partition Magic. What is everyone's view on it?

Do I benefit from partitioning?

Let me know. Here are my system specs.

PIII 933
Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm
GeForce II Ultra 64M card
Sound Blaster Live sound card
Windows 2000

Thanks for the help

 

[peteb]

You absolutely want to partition your drive.

My recommendation is this...

4-8 (no more) partition NTFS as your WIN2K/Boot/Pagefile partition.

Use the rest as your apps/data partition.

WHEN you have to reinstall 2K, you can reformat the Boot partition (very good thing) without losing your app/game data.

I install all 'optional' apps on my 2nd partion and all 'system' apps on the C drive. This allows defrag and error checking of the 2nd partition without hassles. If you install antivirus or other utils to D: you'll find you are doing everything over a bootup...

Pete.

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[peteb]

Oh yes - to partition it use a Win98 Boot disk and use FDISK )

The other point is that 8GB is the maximum recommended boot partition size for 2K/NT. Make sure you set your pagefile to the desired size and lock min and max size to the same value! This avoid pagefile growth and fragmentation (a very bad thing for performance).

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[Guest]

Since I already have Win2k installed, would partitioning with Partition Magic be fine?

 

[peteb]

Good question - no idea. If it can split your current free space into a new partition, then yes - but I'd opt for doing it right from a clean disk - otherwise I think you are headed for trouble...

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