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dhlucke   09-07-2002 at 06:33:52 PM

Ok, I'm just sampling you guys since I'm doubting myself. I'm setting up my WD1200JB and want to know how some of you have partitioned your drives. Especially your large drives.

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The_Bear   09-07-2002 at 07:21:57 PM
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I have the same drive and did not partition it at all. Maybe it's my UNIX background or the fact that NTFS doesn't waste drive space like FAT (I currently use 2000). I have been burned to many times with a full partition in the past. Although Partition Magic can correct this, I have always just managed space using the directory structure.

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khha4113   09-07-2002 at 10:44:07 PM
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I have 2 of IBM 60GXP 40G is setup as RAID-0. I used FDisk to divided into 2 parts, 1 Primary partition (C: drive, 40GB) and another is Extended partition. In this extended partition, I also divided into 2 logical drives (drive D and E, 22 and 15GB respectively).

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lhgpoobaa   09-08-2002 at 03:52:51 AM
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OS: win2k
2 drives:
primary master 80Gb 800JB partitioned 2 ways.
C: - 5Gb NTFS (OS, swap, basic programs), D: 75Gb NTFS (games, utilites, all other programs, raw divx files)

primary master RAID 80Gb D740X, 1 80Gb NTFS partition (mp3's, warez, backup of OS, backups of games/savegames, archived utilities, DIVX, pr0n etc)

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Bardic   09-10-2002 at 01:01:57 AM
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I always prefer at least 2 partitions, around 5GB for the OS, and then the rest. Or like a 5-30-30 for bigger drives.
C: is OS
D: is games, program files, ghost image of C
E: is MP3's, movies, other data

And I make all my partitions using part, then I don't have to mess with those crappy extended partitions. Makes things a bit easier to resize later, and they can all be bootable.

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