How have you partitioned your drives?

I usually format once a month or so to clear out the garbage from whatever software/settings I've been testing. Any important files are held in "My Documents" that I've re-directed using TweakUI to a second partition so that I don't have to restore them from backup whenever I do this. Microsoft also recommends having the swap file on a seperate partition from Windows for increased performance, hence my setup choices.

I only have a single drive installed at the moment so it makes more sense for me to do thing's that way rather than a single partitioned drive.
 
HD1 :
Partition 1 : Windows 10gig
Partition 2 : Page file 5gig
Partition 3 : games (what ever space isn't used)
HD2 (when its in the machine) :
1 Partition : duel boot to rubbish XP install were i test on higher end hardware.
 
320gb primary drive:
140gb for windows, programs, games, video clips
60gb for music
100gb for video files

120gb secondary:
55gb for more video files
55gb linux
1gb linux swap.
 
I create...

1 partition on my fastest drive for windows/programs/games to be installed
1 smaller partition on the same drive so that another install of windows or any other os can be installed without interfering with the original, then all my other data (pics/vids/music etc) on seperate hdd's, along with the swap file.

i may be wrong but how can there be any benifit from creating a new partition (on the same drive) and then installing programs/games that rely on windows to run on this partition rather than installing them on the windows partition itself?
 
Haircut said:
1 x 300Gb Drive (280Gb formatted)

C: Windows (20Gb)
D: Media (75Gb)
E: Programs (60Gb)
F: Files (125Gb)

I did some registry tweaking when I installed Windows to ensure that my program files directory was on E: and Documents & Settings was on F: so my Windows drive is pretty much just Windows.

Could do with another drive at the minute though as it's all getting pretty full.
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Wont you have to reinstall your games and programs that are on E: if you reinstall Windows? Also how do you change those two directories, I would love to do that on my partitions.
 
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