Partition for OS?

Swi1ch

Swi1ch

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So hopefully my parts from OCuk will be here today (Fingers crossed) and i'm thinking about setting it up.

I heard someone say somewhere that you can partition the HD so that you can install OS on a small partition and the rest of your stuff on the other one, that way you can make a fresh OS install without wiping all your other stuff. Is that right? Is it difficult to do?
 
If its a fresh install on the new drive you can partition it in windows when you install it. A 30 GB section for the OS and partition the rest as you want it, maybe games, films, music.

Its the only way to go.

1. You wont loose the data if the OS goes **** up and you can do a clean reinstall.
2. You only have to defrag 30 GB not 1TB.
3. Makes things more organised.

Also a good idea to put the windows swap/page file on a separate HD if you have one.
 
What are the advantages of making separate partitions for stuff like games films and music like you said?

Also, how do I know/choose where to install stuff. If I have say 4 partitions, does it appear in my computer a 4 hard drives or something?
 
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Yes, each partition will appear as a logical drive with it's own drive letter. I keep the C: (boot) partition at around 100GB, that way I can use a utility like Ghost to make a backup image of the OS. It's then really simple to restore if things go wrong. Normal backup programs just store individual files [and not all of them] so restore doesn't always work if Windows is completely dead or the drive is corrupt.
 
ChrisLX200 said:
Yes, each partition will appear as a logical drive with it's own drive letter. I keep the C: (boot) partition at around 100GB, that way I can use a utility like Ghost to make a backup image of the OS. It's then really simple to restore if things go wrong. Normal backup programs just store individual files [and not all of them] so restore doesn't always work if Windows is completely dead or the drive is corrupt.
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That's cool.

I'm getting a 1TB drive, so you reckon 100GB for OS and other OS utilities yeah? I'll probably split the rest into games, utilities and regular programs and then another for general and media. I have so much music and films and comics and ebooks that are rapidly growing (And not sure if you can change size of partition) plus I do music tech so need access to most my normal music as well plus film clips etc.
 
I only built my new machine a couple weeks ago so I'm still sorting it out. This pic shows the current internal drive arrangement (some ATA some SATA, the new boot drive is a 300GB velociraptor which I may partition later). Swap file is on the 74GB raptor. Not shown are the 3 external drives including a 1TB MyBook for storing copies of backups. A fair amount of spare space at the moment!


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