mass hard drives, partitioning?

Jeff · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 678 City: Long Island

I just bought a new 250 gig maxtor hardive which works great, but i have a question about partitioning it. How has everyone else broken up there large hard drives, or have you just left it as one big partition?

garveyj · Addict Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 877 City: Savage, MN

Each person is different - personally I have a 250 GB hard drive as one big partition for video editing, and then I have an 80 GB broken down into 4 partitions. On for my main drive, one for MP3's, one for gaming files, and one for Digital pictures.

PimpinD · Addict Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Posts: 785 City: Orlando, FL

heh, i just have 3 seperate hdd, makes partitioning useless...
Hard Disks: Total/Free:
372.62/183.39GB ¤
Total/Free space:
C: 111.79/37.34GB
F: 111.79/21.26GB
G: 149.05/124.8GB

RUSSIAN · Posted: Jan 25, 2005 8:21 pm Post subject:

garveyj, why did you partition that drive. Is there an advantage to it?

Jeff · Addict Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 678 City: Long Island

I always thought that partitioning alowed it to find files quicker, I dont know im probly wrong. Mybe some one else knows if theres a real advantage?

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

Partitioning will probably not help find files quicker. The benefits of it are if you have 2 different things that you want to seperate. On my computer I have 1 80 gig hard drive and I have it partitioned to where 20 gigs is my C drive and has windows and all of the programs I install. On my D drive (the other 60 gigs) I have all of my storage files (music, videos, etc). The benefit of this is when I want to format my hard drive and reinstall windows I only have to delete that one partition and my other partition remains intact. This saves me from having to burn all of my storage files every time I want to format and reinstall windows.