Question How do YOU partition your HDs ( PCMech Forums Drives and Storage )
Updated: 2009-06-04 05:20:22 (20) |
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How do YOU partition your HDs
I thought this might be a fun thread for people to post how they partitioned their HD or HD's for their PC's.
Basically, just give the details about your hard drives and partitions, such as the size, whether it is a primary or secondary drive, what that partition is for and so on and so forth. Very simple, but I am curious to see as to how each person lays out their own PC, especially for those that have multiple operating systems installed.
I guess I will start with me. This is just for having WinXP Pro SP3 only.
Hard Drives
74GB WD Raptor SATA (Primary)
320GB WD Caviar SATA (Secondary)
Partitions
C: WinXP Pro 34.6GB
D: Programs 34.6GB
G: Games 122GB
M: Media Files 83GB (Music, Pics, Word docs, etc)
S: Software 46.5GB (Freeware, Shareware, Drivers, Misc Downloads, etc)
W: Web Projects 46.5GB
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How do YOU partition your HDs
Primary Hard Drive
1st Partition: 150gb Vista HP x64 and programs
2nd Partition: 140gb Linux Mint 6 x64 and programs
3rd Partition: 2gb Swap file
Secondary Drive
500gb for personal files. (Email, pics, music, movies, downloads. Anything not installed by a program.)
For my mac:
1st partition: OS X and programs
2nd Partition: Linux Mint and programs
3rd Partition: Win xp and programs
shadowpr
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How do YOU partition your HDs
I don't partition my drives.
glc
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How do YOU partition your HDs
isn't kind of bad to do that?
teddy3254
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How do YOU partition your HDs
Same as glc, one big partition. I keep current on backups, I also keep copies of important docs elsewhere. all my programs can be re-installed if need be.
Desktop - 1 sata 250 GB Windows XP pro
2 sata 250 GB Debian 5.0 - this is my test drive always changing OS
3 sata 250 GB used for storage / backups
FreeNAS server- 120 GB assorted files / photos
mikeL
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How do YOU partition your HDs
I also don't partition my hard drives, but I have an external drives that is set up as a RAID drive for backup purposes.
Strider
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How do YOU partition your HDs
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Originally Posted by teddy3254
isn't kind of bad to do that?
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In essence, no it is not.
Partitioning can help you store your data away from your OS to help improve performance. With WinXP and other current versions, they can perform better on an unpartitioned drive, but if you plan on having multiple OS's you MUST partition the drive so that the PC and OS's may load properly.
mjkovis
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How do YOU partition your HDs
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Originally Posted by mjkovis
but if you plan on having multiple OS's you MUST partition the drive so that the PC and OS's may load properly.
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Or you can put the different os's on different drives.
shadowpr
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How do YOU partition your HDs
Both of my desktops have multiple physical drives, so partitioning them would just be more complicated. I am a FIRM believer in keeping things simple. My Eee came with a partitioned drive and I left it alone. My Thinkpad only has a 20gb drive, which is kinda pointless to break up. I don't multiple boot anything.
glc
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How do YOU partition your HDs
When I first built this computer (circa 2002), the prevailing wisdom at the time was 8 to 12 GB for the OS partition should be plenty. At this point, that box has no room on the C:/ drive, and that's with all programs and data on different partitions or drives. Just updates and miscellaneous install information has completely filled the thing.
Kov-Ice
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How do YOU partition your HDs
I don't bother partitioning either.
Lespaul20
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How do YOU partition your HDs
I used to partition my hdd too but it ended up causing more problems than preventing them. I don't bother any more. My Windows Home server keeps everything backed up and the only penalty I can see is a slightly longer defrag time. With the processors, ram and hdd speeds we run now, that isn't a biggie either.
Panama Red
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How do YOU partition your HDs
On my desktop, just one big partition. Simple is better.
Laptop has 40GB Windows
58GB Linux /home
16GB Linux /
and a 500MB utility partition that Lenovo put on there.
LeftyAce
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How do YOU partition your HDs
My Windows Vista drive is single (rofl) but this is how I went with my last reformat about a month ago:
30GB OS Partition
210GB Programs and Files or Games Partition, separated by root folders.
I will never use only one partition again, my boot times and system responsiveness is amazing now. My old XP drive is used as a reference drive, contains all of my old XP stuff.
Icyman23
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How do YOU partition your HDs
No hard drive partitioning. 500 GB Secondary hard drive for music, videos and Acronis backup of primary. Also have 500 GB external drive for storage.
cmichael258
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How do YOU partition your HDs
None for me either. I have two physical drives, an 80GB for the OS and a 320GB for storage. My single drive machines are also just one big drive.
Alaron
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How do YOU partition your HDs
Well, I reinstalled this past week after I got my new 500GB Caviar Black hard drive... Here is how my system looks now...
Hard Drives
500GB Caviar Black SATA (Primary)
320GB Caviar SATA (Secondary)
Partitions
C: WinXP Pro 195GB
D: Win7 RC 135GB
E: Linux Mint 135GB
M: Media Files (Software, Downloads, Music, Pics, etc)
P: Page File 19.7GB
W: Web & Graphical Projects 131GB
I still need to install Win7 and Mint yet. Just got done reinstalling everything. Made sure to make my image backup with my EZ Gig software after I got the drivers, my larger programs and updates all done! Just for my Adobe CS3 it has over 300MB of updates to download and install!!!!
So far, this thing flies!!! It is much, much faster than the setup I had before and I am so happy to get rid of that 74GB Raptor. Darn noisy thing!
mjkovis
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How do YOU partition your HDs
i have too many drives as is, try to avoid partitioning cause it makes it complex - desktop has 5, laptop has one internal one external, netbook even has one. I like what my friend does - he has an asus mobo and intel c2 quad, but uses 2 seperate hard drives - one with os x and one with windows, just switches in the boot order when he wants to change.
Desktop
2 x 500gb in RAID 0 (boot drive running Win XP x64, along with a ubuntu install inside it)
2 x 1TB (storage)
1 x 250gb (music/documents backup)
Laptop
120GB, split into
40GB (Ubuntu)
80GB (XP)
Netbook
320GB, all for OS X, but i am shortly returning it to XP, might dual boot 7 or ubuntu 9.04 for a bit, then it's going on e-bay likely....i like having it around as a machine to mess around, try new operating systems, or bring with me on trips, but 3 computers is...just too much.
I may ditch both laptops and buy a unibody macbook whenever the "new" ones come out in fall.
inflames988
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How do YOU partition your HDs
My current system has one (160 GB) drive, partitioned in half; the C: is for OS and programs, and the D: is for files (i.e., pics, docs, etc.); this makes backups a lot easier for me. The next system, probably along the lines of a configuration suggested in another thread (thanks to glc), will probably have two drives - not sure yet, but probably will run that way, and no partitioning.
The 160-GB drive has been making some noises lately, so I did another backup today; it will be replaced soon.
Jerry Falletta
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How do YOU partition your HDs
I'm amazed at the drive sizes people have.
My XP stuff is all on one partition but with an extended partition and logical drive for temporary stuff.
98SE stuff has a fat16 as C: with load stuff, everything else on extended/logical, mostly dual boot.
My Unix customers have multiple drives, multiple partitions, 3 drives across 2 SCSI controllers.
All the personal stuff, 5 partitions, are set up so they can be shared for backup. Includes several DOS database directories, mail shares from the 5 partitions, and backups for the favorites, cookies, and address books.
edfair
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How do YOU partition your HDs
25 GB for Windows and most software installation
All files go somewhere else.
RayH
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