Your HDD / Partition Setup?. I am very interested in how others have organized there system's storage for there needs. I am thinking of upgrading to a single =>1TB HDD instead of a RAID setup and wonder if there would be a major performance decrease? Oddly...

a good partition set-up? C:\ Windows 7 - 14gb D:\ Windows XP - 6gb E:\ Program Files (win7) - 100gb F:\ Program Files (XP) - 100gb G:\ My Documents/Media - 280gb 1) anything to modify or change? 2) are the OS partitions large enough (swap files included)...

Partition Setup. I would like to know how i should partition 30 gig drive for linux and win98 should i make linux partition first so it starts at a cylider < 1024, then swap partition then fat32 at end also what order to install os,i plan on using vmware...

PROBLEM INSTALLING XP &PARTITIONING IN SETUP. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general () I can't believe this. OK. So first off, I setup 1 20g partition and 1 180g partition, was stepped through to formatting NTFS for first partition,...

logical volumes) in an extended partition which consumed the remainder of the disc. If so, would it be better in future to just create the system partition at setup, and use Disk Management to create D and E as I see fit (maybe in an extended partition...

The >>setup program allows cluster size choices from 512KB to 4 MB. >>If I >>use one big partition am I asking for trouble with a small >>cluster >>size? >>>> Yes. With a small cluster size, performance will suffer. If you >partition this...

partition - Set up 60, 80, and 10GB logical partitions under the aforementioned extended partition Also, if I setup the extended partition to encompass only what I need for the three logical partitions (i.e. 60+80+10=150GB), would I have to setup a...

to install xp. first delete the partition that is already they(same as in fdisk), follow instructions until you are asked to create a partition and set-up xp. select it and enter the size of the partition you want. repeat for your other 2 partitions. install...

and the second partition being an "image" of said drive for backup. So my question to you all is am I doing this inteligently or am I going about this whole partitioning setup all wrong? If so any recommendations? Thank you for reading this long, first...

is to use a single disk or setup another small RAID for the OS and use the 4 x 1.5 TB Seagate HDs in RAID5 and convert it to GPT. Out of curiosity, why do you need larger than 2 TB partitions? Setup the raid array as two logical units, so the OS sees it as...