So.....i just got a 7200.11 500gb seagate for new build

And I have no idea how to partition it or how many partitions to create or what to store on each partition.

someone please help

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[H]i, your best bet assuming you dont keep 90% of files in my documents is to make a smaller C drive - say 10% or 50gb (50,000mb) and install windows to that. Then once at windows make a logical partition for the rest of the drive and use that for games / pics / mp3s / movies etc.

This is the safest way and easiest for backup etc as when you have to reinstall windows you only have docs n settings to backup and then you can wipe C and reinstall from fresh and no risk of loosing all your stuff on D.

Hope that helps and to say thats how Ive been doing pc's for a long while now as when support is needed - ie windows needs nuking - its the quickest and easiest way to work. BUT.....this doesnt give you a lot of room for saving everything into my docs on C so really it comes down to how you use your machine. I used to make seperate partitons on my A1200 for each different type of data file I used and that was easy back when sizes were tiny but today you need a lot of room to move.

Reply if thats no help as there are lots of options but I DONT reccomend a single big C drive as thats just a nitemare for backup / management.

but if i wipe the whole hard drive c and d will be erased right?

so...im going to make a c drive with only vista on it, 50 gb

then the rest of 450 gb is going to be on the d drive.



if i have to re-install vista, only c drive will be affected.....but my documents will be erased as well if its on the c drive?

ooh...and where do i partition my hard drive? using vista? or go through the bios....

because if i partition using vista, then how to i make a partition for vista using vista?

Hi again, you would make the fist main partition during the install process and you can choose the size to make it etc.....

As for nuking it - yes if you nuke the whole drive then both would go but if you only formatted C then obv anything on D is saved.....

As for making the D drive you do that once windows is installed and there are tons of help docs on google if you search as Im not certain if vista is the same as xp or not as I wont use vista but think it would be similar....

oh and yes on my docs etc - thats what I meant by backing up documents and settings folder which my docs is under, but Im sure you can see its far easier to keep my docs cloned to D as a backup and save all big files for games / movies etc etc on D under folders for Games , Graphics, Sound etc.

I might sound finiky but Im a virgo and like things to be neat and cannot stand seeing a pc that a long time user has just saved godknows what to whereknowsgod !.....

k......and is there anyway to put My Documents on the d drive?

There is with xp by using a powertoy called TWEAK UI, but as I say not being a vista user I honestly cant say if you can do that but Id bet you can.....best bet is to ask a vistaholic or try a quick google search for "moving my docs to different hdd".

Obviously having my docs on a seprate partiton or hdd is even safer but.....not if you use that as a download folder as its the first port of call for internet nasties outside the temp folders. personally id use a temporary folder on C for downloading and then once you know its virus / malware free then move to D etc....hope Ive been of some little help !>

it's pretty easy I believe, it works exactly as it does in XP, (or at least I think it does). I recently changed back to XP from Vista my self...

Just right click the document folder, go to properties and type in the new destination. It will then ask you if you wish to move all you files currently in your document folder to this new destination, or if you wish to leave them where they are and only move the document folder it self.

Don't kill me if I'm wrong. good luck.