Help me partition my drive.

iNeb · January 31st, 2003, 02:47 AM

Now, i know how to partition my drive, i just need help on figuring out what space i will put on them. I will have a 100GB hard drive on the pc i am building so i won't run out of space for now

Right now i have a 40GB backup drive planned..

Here is what i plan on having -

(20GB) For the OS, the apps and games installed. (7GB used so far)

(5GB) For my personal files, website, ect.

(37.5GB) For my media, MP3's pictures, ect. But i plan on getting a TV card, so i don't know if this will be enough. I have 725MB of mp3s now, so...

(37.5GB) For my apps. For the stuff i don't have on disk, like freeware apps, winamp, winrar, game patches, ect.. so when i format i can just install everything in less then a day, instead of searching...

So i don't know what to do. If this is right or what. So i need some help

JacobM5727 · January 31st, 2003, 02:51 AM

we have been over this before

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John Prophet · January 31st, 2003, 02:55 AM

get a copy of partition magic and then if you need to adjust some stuff later you can.

JP

Beemer · January 31st, 2003, 02:57 AM

I like smaller O/S drives myself. Faster "on the fly" maintenance. Is it one HDD or 2 that you will be using?

Cheers!

iNeb · January 31st, 2003, 02:58 AM

Guys, no i want to know what i should set my drive partitions to..

Like should i have 20GB for the os? What do you think? Is 37.5 for the media too little? What about is 5GB too much for my personal files?

And i will be using two.

(1) 100GB drive for my stuff

(1) 40GB backup drive till i run out of space

Wizzard~Of~Ozz · January 31st, 2003, 02:59 AM

I only use 3Gig for OS and programs, Games go on my larger part (2x35 raid 0, Gotta love Win2k having software raid, you don't need 2 drives the same size and any leftover drive space you can make another drive)

iNeb · January 31st, 2003, 03:01 AM

3GB that's all?

Oh crap, i misread my info. I have 15GB free, HAH

Just read it again, i have 7GB used for my current hard drive.

725 in apps

5GB in games

1GB for win2k

Now going over it, maybe i should take it down some

Wizzard~Of~Ozz · January 31st, 2003, 03:03 AM

Hey, I still have 2 Gig free, But I don't use Office or anything like that installed, (I don't use it, but I still have a copy of 97 floating around somewhere)

Beemer · January 31st, 2003, 03:04 AM

With WinXP you will want at least 5gigs if you are to install your programs to another drive. Is your 40gig as fast as your 100gig?

Cheers!

iNeb · January 31st, 2003, 03:05 AM

Sorry guys, edited my post... Made a mistake

Beemer, i am only going to keep my apps's .exe files so i can load them again, i will install them on my main drive