What partitions do you have?

What partitions do you have what size and why???


i have 3 on a 320gb hdd 1 at 50gb (win 7) 1 at 25 (xp) and the rest with all my stuff on there pics films anything to be kept safe.

I have 1 partition on three seperate hard drives each. I don't like partitions, and just use the whole drive as one big partition.
This is because I have had nothing but trouble with them in the past. I go to re-format one partition and it would goof up the other one. So I keep it simple, one big partition for each drive.

I only keep one drive plugged in at a time. This isolates my drives from the possibility of a virus attack or if one drive crashes, I can be back in business in about two minutes.

Doing it this way works well for me. Less headaches.

In theory you are right -- But 2 exceptions
1) Dual / Triple / Quadruple boot Boot --Each OS needs to be kept in a separate partition.
2) even if you have 1 OS only it's ALWAYS better to separate the OS from User Data, music, multimedia etc.Since even a bloted W7 install won't take much more than 25 - 30 GB then if you have a large hard disk (these days 750GB or even 1TB is not uncommon) then it makes sense to partition the drive into say 50GB for the OS and leave the rest for data etc.

If you have to restore / re-install the OS you don't lose anything else on the other partition.

I'm not sure how formatting one partition if it's done correctly can goof up the other one.
cheers
jimbo

I have a quad boot system on a single 320 GB HDD. I have four seperate partitions on that hard drive. I have never had any problems with quad booting. I agree with jimbo45 on this one. I cant see how anything would affect the other partitions on the hard drive unless you tried to manually make changes to the other hard drive.

I'm not sure how it happened either, but my experience with computers is that sometimes they do unexpected things.
It just seems everytime I try partitions, I have nothing but trouble with them or the disk.

explain a situation where you have had trouble in the past?

Well this goes back years ago, I don't remember the details, and it might have even been with Windows ME, but I would have trouble with the installation if I tried partitions. I was having a lot of problems and it turned out Norton Anti-Virus was conflicting with my music production programs, they would work fine until I'd install Norton, then poof, my OS would become corrupted. So I'd have to re-install everything from scratch. So I'd try installing my OS one one partition, and direct another partition to save my music files. This would work for a short while and then slowly deteriorate. So I'd be back re-installing the OS over again. I'd try to reformat one partition and the whole disk would get erased. This also happened to me while having two hard drives plugged in at the same time. I'd go to reformat one, and both would get erased. I'm sure I was doing something wrong, but I don't know what it was. So since then, I tried everything on one partition, and that worked fine for me, as my music programs could find my saved files much easier. I learned not to depend on a partition for a back up file, because that could become corrupt too.

Doing it this way, I have less headaches, and my programs work just fine.

On my main PC which gets used the most.. I have 1 Seagate 160GB SATA2 HDD, and 1 Seagate 500GB SATA2 HDD.. The 160GB has 2 partitions on it.. 1st: (100GB) Windows 7 Build 7022 32bit 2nd: (50GB) Games Partition (ALL my games are installed here, this one's size gets changed constantly though)... The 500GB has 3 Partitions on it.. 1st (83GB) Windows XP PRO SP3 - 2nd: (362GB) Storage Partition (ALL my personal files are on this partition and are backed up nightly).. 3rd: (20GB) Windows 7 PageFile...

I did have Vista on the 500GB also but i recently deleted all partitions on both drives and started completely fresh on this PC. I still use Vista on my secondary PC.. I also constantly shrink partitions and make some bigger than they started out as but this is the most current setup I have on my main PC.. As for why it's setup this way? Well I guess just because it works the best for my particulair needs/uses on this PC... Having a seperate partition for games has always been a good idea to me, it just makes sense.. and having the Windows 7 PageFile (or Vista if applicable) on a seperate partition/drive is also just a good idea.. it increases performance drastically in my opinion... The personal files being on their own partition is a no brainer.. And that just leaves the 2 OS's on seperate partitions.. which I really don't think I need to explain why..

I,m wasteful. Through repeated installations, I found that, even with my software installed, my average hard disk use, with Vista or 7, was less than 20GBs.
To allow for contingencies, I gave myself Four partitions of 40Gbs each. I have Vista 64, Windows 7:64 and 32, and, For my grand chldrens visits! XPPro 32bit. On two hard disks I have 320 gbs. Well, not my choice, it came with my main computer.
When my grandchildren visit, they downoad (innocent, I hope!) games. They are, after all computer wise with a top age of 9yrs - lol. These are easily accomodated on all that extra space, where they have another partition for that purpose.
I would be happy to ease out on the space, but I am very image concious, and smaller partitions make for faster backup and restore..
Fwiw. I have never had crossover problems, with partitioning.problems

I've used partitions for a long time. This computer has a 750 gig HD. I've got VMware workstation on c so I used about 136 gig there and the rest for data. When I installed Win 7 I made a 40 gig partition from the data partition. I've reformatted and reinstalled on XP with no problems.
Joe