How much should i partition for games?

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Hi, im about to partition my pc. I have a 500gb hard disk - how should i partition it?

How much gb for games, music, film, general

for the average person?

Thanks.

 

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My steam account takes 42gb

Music and videos are probably each about the same as well. Just 5x 100gb sounds good to me, depends on the OS. Dont forget compression

What do you mean by 'dont forget compression'? Sorry, im new to all this malarkey.

 

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Not so easy to do retrospectively and basically I dont see any drawbacks to it

Ah, ive just formatted my drive and not clicked compression. Shall i format it again?

 

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Yea

Is quick format ok?

 

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Don't mean to hijack this but saves another thread on basically the same subject.

I've got a 400gb coming soon and will be running XP, Ubuntu and maybe Vista if the mood takes me. I'll be using the PC for gaming, mostly with a little work being done on it also. Will also need space reserved for music files.

How should I partition the drive? Also, what file systems should I use for each partition?

Don't worry - i'd also like to know what to use to partion the drive.

 

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How long will it take to do a full format on a 400gb Seagate?

Between 1-1.5 hours.

 

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Which is the better way to partition my drive?

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial116.html#create
or
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

 

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In terms of gaming there aren't many advantages to either partitioning a drive, nor to formatting it as a compressed format. If you are hoping to speed things up by partitioning, think again. Due to the mechanical aspects of reading a drive, partitioning won't speed things up, and the compression will in fact make the drive slower. If you want a seperate partition for games, i would suggest buying another hard drive and putting them on there.

I just want to partion my 500gb hard disk..

one for music, one for games, another for films..

or should i just put it all in the 500gb?

 

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I would just put it all on the one 500gb in seperate directories. That way if you find you need more space for games and less for music than you originally planned, it makes no difference.

what do you mean by separate directories?

 

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In different folders... eg. F:/Music, F:/Games, F:/Movies

EDIT: Beaten to it

ah that explained it beter. thanks

 

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In my C drive can i put

program files
windows
drivers

in one folder called misc?

so its C:/misc/windows
C:/misc/program files
C:/misc/drivers

 

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Umm.. No. You shouldnt really move the windows or program files or drivers folders as it can screw things up. In fact, you cant move the windows folder at all. You will just have to make new folders.

Or you could re format and create a partition just big enough for windows, and then have the rest of the drive for your other stuff.

Well, i have my 80gb partioned through the BIOS.

I have 20gb with windows on
and 60gb with nothing


and a spare 500gb HD

 

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Thanks for your advise!

At the moment i have an 80gb partioned 20/60..

20gb = windows
60gb= nothing at the moment


and i have a 500gb for music/files/data.

When i download firefox for instance should i try to save it on the 80gb or save it in my 500gb?

Thanks..