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benefits of partitioning a drive
Name: agenttan Date: December 2, 2004 at 19:24:14 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: 2200+
Comment:
hi, is there a benefit to partitioning a drive? i currently have a 120gb hard drive, if that information is needed. and will it speed up the computer in any way like boot time, etc?
Name: ham30 Date: December 2, 2004 at 20:06:48 Pacific
Reply:
It will not speed up the system but using a small partition for the OS and putting all your data and programs on another partition has several significant advantages.
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Response Number 2
Name: StuartS Date: December 2, 2004 at 20:22:31 Pacific
Reply:
I agree with ham30. Putting everything in one large partition is like putting all you egss in one basket. Spread them out a bit.
Stuart
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Response Number 3
Name: Doug W (by Doug Wright) Date: December 2, 2004 at 20:30:21 Pacific
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I agree with Ham30 here. I do audio recording on one of my computers.
I have WinXP, recording software and all other programs on a 20 Gig hard drive, which is more than enough room since I have 16 Gig spare space on that hard drive. The second 40 Gig hard drive is partitioned into 3 drives. I keep all my Music files on one partition and other types of files on the other partitions.
I recently upgraded from Win 98SE to XP and I just formatted the C drive and installed XP and all my recording software and all my old files, songs etc. were left intact on other partitions.
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