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Single Hard Drive - 1 or 2 partitions?
Which yeilds better performance?
Replies: 28 — Last Post July 15 6:00am by JeremyM
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( Uniq0ne )

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I'm reinstalling Windows XP. Have a question though.

Should I create 2 partitions or should I only use 1?

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Use 2.

Make one smaller than the other, and only put vital shit on the smaller one, and use the bigger for your media.

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reformatting? 1

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akallen


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I'd get 2

One for programs + windows

and the other for your videos and music nd crap.

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but if youre just reinstalling go with what everyone else siad i dont know shit

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evilsoul


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i also do 2 same alot of hassle how big the drive
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CherryD


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1?

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Yeah only thing is I'm a perfectionist and when I set the 2 partitions I always end up with the drives saying:

C Drive: 50GB D Drive: 99GB

D Drive being 99 and not 100 bugs the hell out of me lol...

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jamescoleman


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yea i dont like how you can get 50 gigs and not have the other 100 on the other partition either. you should go with two just so it'll be easier to back up the important stuff as well
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Yeah I'll probably end up doing that one day. But right now I've still got like 100gigs of free space lol
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madinflux


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I use two. I also use a backup just in case.
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Jay JWLH


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That 99 isn't that surprising. A 150GB hard drive is the market value of it, but once you install it on your computer you are given a bit less since it is different to binary space. I have 931GB in my 1TB HDD for example.

I personally think you should make sure you create a large enough partition for windows and everything you install onto it, and leave the last partition for later. At least if you put the windows partition at the start of the drive, you can move the second partition around, and resize it. You can even make the windows partition bigger, I just wouldn't recommend moving it at all. What I hated the most about my instillation was having the partition all the way at the end of the drive.

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Tursi Askari


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Fuck partitions. I'm yet to find a use for them. Making a small partition for your OS means you have to install your programs in the other partition and what does that actually accomplish? My 2c.

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Quote: from Tursi Askari at 2:42 pm on June 28, 2008
Fuck partitions. I'm yet to find a use for them. Making a small partition for your OS means you have to install your programs in the other partition and what does that actually accomplish? My 2c.

It keeps your first partition less fragmented, therefore an increase in performance. On my 1st partition I have my OS and Programs and on my 2nd I have Music, Games, Videos, and Pictures.

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Tursi Askari


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Hard to run a defrag every few months? I think not. What happens when you fill up one of your partitions?

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