ninjageek Posted June 4, 2007 CID Share Posted June 4, 2007 Some sent me a message about how to sed up a partition on a hardrive and such. I really need more information. How big is your harddrive, How many harddrives do you have 1 or 2? What operating system are you running? I can help more with more information. So yea I can help you out just need more information. If for some reason I don't make it back, there are lots of others that can help you out as well. Let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted June 4, 2007 CID Share Posted June 4, 2007 partition magic 8.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 I would NOT recommend setting up a partition unless you absolutely need it, At the end of the day it does nothing for you and it is more of a hassle than it is a benefit (I know I set one up and didn't need it for what I set it up for). If you DO really need one, "partition magic" is a decent program. If you just want your OS on one hard drive, I would suggest getting a second smaller hard drive and using that instead of setting up partitions because you eventually lose space with them when it's all said and done. But, why do you need one? Your drive is only going to use the space it uses, and the "added space" from a partition is basically null. Then again, I'm a chick, so don't listen to me, I don't know anything unless you want me to douse you in tech S#!t like this: A prtition is used for sepreating a drive into distinct logical drives, However, when partitioning a drive, you create the protential for causing errors in your "partition table" which can result in your entire drive becoming inoperable. Furthermore, partioning does not protect you from hard drive failure, so it's a much better solution to have a seperate drive for your back-ups or other operation systems. With each partition you make you need to factor in extra drive space to allow for your OS to run and give room to install programs that require a "HOME drive" (this could be named anything so I won't call it a c drive). So if you have two or more partitions on a drive, you end up wasting twice as much space on that drive to calculate free space. The best recommendation would be to buy a second drive that will allow your OS to "move" (speed wise), and the other programs you believe you want to install the freedom that they need. If you are looking purely for a backup solution, the most efficient way is through RAID, which will allow you to automatically mirror your drive as you use it.. Hope that helps! ~sincerely, the wet chick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kamil234 Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 i have a 200 gb partition and a empty 40gb partition (you know, so i can store porn on there) partition magic is really easy to use. (jk bout the porn) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 i have a 200 gb partition and a empty 40gb partition (you know, so i can store porn on there) partition magic is really easy to use. (jk bout the porn) Yea we all know your not kidding and its probably the other way around 40GB for your OS and stuff, and 200GB for porn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 ive found hard drive partitioning to be useful....its an inexpensive way to have lets say a complete windows xp image backup in case something goes wrong - that way im up and running in under half an hour with the same settings before the incident.....of course, having another hard drive is better, but sometimes we just don't feel like coughing up a dime or even a more common use of a multiple partition setup....keep coppies of all programs you install on a 2nd partition, so when ( it will LOL) windows goes crazy you can restore quickly ...thats my take on it...i find it useful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHalf Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 I also used Partition Magic 8.0 by PowerQuest and like a few posts before mine I did for the same reasons. Take a look at the pic below and tell me (if you can) which drive I partitioned. TheHalf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diehard Posted June 5, 2007 CID Share Posted June 5, 2007 120GB HD partitioned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted June 6, 2007 CID Share Posted June 6, 2007 Yea we all know your not kidding and its probably the other way around 40GB for your OS and stuff, and 200GB for porn :2funny: :2funny: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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