To partition or not?

Jimbo · 13 Apr 2007 at 16:29

I have my new drive formatted and installed, its a WD AAKS 320 gig, formatted it is 298 GB. Now I'm gonna use it for XP and Games dual booting vista on a separate drive.

But was wondering to partition it say 200 gig for XP and games and the rest for Downloads?

What you all reckon?

bledd · 13 Apr 2007 at 19:25

your drive wont get as fragmented if you use the 2nd partition for downloads

personally i never partition, i just buy more drives and keep more backups on them

Jimbo · 13 Apr 2007 at 21:11

Good point a 300 gig drive would take ages to defrag.

IAmATeaf · 14 Apr 2007 at 00:01

If that's the only drive in your system then I'd be inclined to partition it so that you've got a place to store personal data other then on the system disk. This would allow you to scrap the main OS partition if needed at a later date without having to go through the worry of finding and backing up your data.

michael baxter · 14 Apr 2007 at 00:08

Having a data only partition is a useful way to share data between the boot partitions.

bledd · 14 Apr 2007 at 14:37

o&o defrag is your friend

can defrag the drive for you everyday when you're using the pc (without noticable slowdown) to keep it in tip top condition

skanky · 14 Apr 2007 at 15:07

personally partitioning isnt for me. dont see the point when extra drives are so cheap.

Jimbo · 14 Apr 2007 at 15:55

I have O&O and I didnt like it at all. Its not the only drive in my PC I also have a Raptor 74gig with Vista x64 on and now the new AAKS.

michael baxter · 14 Apr 2007 at 16:11

skanky said:
dont see the point when extra drives are so cheap.

I don't see the point not to, it's for free. Extra drives create noise, consume power and aren't free.

However, if your short of space............