im going to reformat the hard drive on one of my computers and reinstall windows. its 200 GB. whats a good way to partition it. i was thinking of making 2 partitions. the first partition would strictly be for core windows files and other necessary system files. the second one would be for My Documents, Program Files, etc. is this a good way to do it? if it is, how would i go about doing this, and how much space should i leave for the system files partition? thanks
You usually want games on the main one, which would be about 60 gigs, the rest is for files 140 gigs... Since I got windows xp original it slips my 320 gig harddrive itself... So I already got 2, then I got another harddrive. SO big files on the other partion and other harddrive, and most games and small files on the main.
C: OS, XP or VISTA (20GB) D: MEDIA, pictures, music, vids, misc (70-120GB) E: APPLICATIONS, games, any application (50-120GB)Â ------ OPTIONAL F: GHOST, contains images of your freshly installed and updated C: and E: drives (30-40GB)
C: OS, XP or VISTA (20GB) D: MEDIA, pictures, music, vids, misc (70-120GB) E: APPLICATIONS, games, any application (50-120GB) ------ OPTIONAL F: GHOST, contains images of your freshly installed and updated C: and E: drives (30-40GB)K_r_a_u_s_e_r
 hey that F: is a good idea. how would i make the images, and use them in case of recovery?
I'll go a little in depth about my GHOST partition and how I set everything up and what I used to do it. I have a boot CD with a lot of great applications on it.
BOOT TO CD PARTITION MAGIC SET C: TO PRIMARY PARTITION, LABEL XP, FORMAT NTFS (20GB) (Can be done in one step using Partition Magic) SET D: TO LOGICAL EXTENDED PARTITION, LABEL MEDIA, FORMAT NTFS (50-120GB) SET E: TO LOGICAL PARTITION, LABEL APPLICATIONS, FORMAT NTFS (50-120GB) SET F: TO LOGICAL PARTITION, LABEL GHOST/BACKUP/FORMAT NTFS (30-40GB) APPLY/REBOOT
INSERT XP CD INSTALL XP ON C:
AFTER INSTALLATION DO WINDOWS UPDATE. INSTALL ANY ALLPICATIONS, GAMES THAT YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE USING FOR A LONG TIME INTO E:.
SET ALL YOUR PEREFERENCES, MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO BE, PERFECT STABLE INSTALL.
REBOOT TO CD(NORTON GHOST)
IN ORDER: LOCAL -> PARTITION -> TO IMAGE SELECT HDD, OK SELECT FIRST PARTITION LABELED XP, OK SAVE IMAGE TO... CLICK ARROW, GHOST/BACKUP, SAVE PROMPT: COMPRESS IMAGE FILE, NO
DONE, YOU JUST MADE AN IMAGE OF YOUR XP PARTITION, NOW TIME FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS PARTITION.
LOCAL -> PARTITION -> TO IMAGE SELECT HDD, OK SELECT PARTITION LABELED APPLICATIONS, OK SAVE IMAGE TO... CLICK ARROW, GHOST/BACKUP, SAVE PROMPT: COMPRESS IMAGE FILE, NO
APPLICATION DONE, NOW YOU SHOULD HAVE TWO GHOST IMAGES OF XP AND YOUR APPLICATIONS.
How is this useful? Very useful, if anything terrible happens to your XP installation, or if your computer is bloated and you want to format... No need. Now do this. I usually do this once a month after major temporary configurations that I don't care about.
BOOT TO CD (NORTON GHOST)
LOCAL -> PARTITION -> FROM IMAGE SELECT HDD, OK SELECT PARTITION LABELED GHOST/BACKUP, FIND XP IMG FILE, OK SELECT XP PARTITION, OK PROMPT: OVERRITE ENTIRE PARTITION, YES
REAPEAT FOR APPLICATIONS PARTITION, DONE.
Your computer is fully restored to delicious freshness. :lol:
There is no benefit in having your applications and windows drive on different partitions. Both are tied after all and you'll only run into space problems if you create so many partitions.
One partition for windows and applications, one for data. You can just use the data partition to store eventual images of the system partition. So you can do the same as the user said above said with half as many partitions.
There is no benefit in having your applications and windows drive on different partitions. Both are tied after all and you'll only run into space problems if you create so many partitions.
One partition for windows and applications, one for data. You can just use the data partition to store eventual images of the system partition. So you can do the same as the user said above said with half as many partitions.
Gog
You took the words right out of my mouth. Of course, a 2nd HDD would always be useful for file-backup, just in case not only the OS crashes, but the HDD takes a dump too.
ok so i guess i shouldnt partition the drive at all. i was just getting second thoughts anyway. now a new issue is kinda bugging me if you guys wouldnt mind helping. the HDD is SATA. i remember that when you boot up the windows install disc, it tells you to press F6 or something to load SATA drivers off of a floppy disk. This computer doesnt have a floppy disk drive (i dont think many computers do these days), and I don't know what the SATA drivers are. Is this going to be a problem or can i just ignore it and not load any drivers?
EDIT: my bad sorry. the message says to press F6 to load SCSI or RAID drivers. I can ignore that right?Â
There is no benefit in having your applications and windows drive on different partitions. Both are tied after all and you'll only run into space problems if you create so many partitions.
One partition for windows and applications, one for data. You can just use the data partition to store eventual images of the system partition. So you can do the same as the user said above said with half as many partitions.
Gog
That's your opinion, I see a lot of benefits of doing it the way I do and I haven't come close to running out of space as of yet. I keep my entire computer clean and organized.
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