track one said:..... should the new hard drive be partioned 50/50 or 60/40 or 20/80?
Track One
VSpaceBoy said:You will need to set the partition on the new drive. Not 50/50 or anything like that. Just leave it one big ass drive. 100% When most ppl use the word partition, they are trying so say chopping up or seperating drive letters on the hard drive. Mostly for cleanliness like having folders on a drive, but ppl think it will speed it up?! Thats like saying a matching shirt and shorts will make you run faster.
When you set it up for the first time, you will need to create the primary partition on the new drive. This tells your operating system how to store data to the drive. Partition Magic is an great program that will guide you straight through. All you will need to do is note what drives you have <PM will show you that>. You may have currently you C as the primary and maybe a D hard drive letter. Then a burner maybe is your E drive. It will set up your new drive as E then bump back automatically your burner to F.
Its not as bad as it sounds, damn near plug n play.
SpaceBoy
I said before... ppl just do it for cleanliness. If you have a "melt down" a partition is not going to save anything. If the hard drive goes, then it takes every partition with it. What else could you be referring to as melt down?? If a program goes south, uninstall it through Windows and reinstall it. Drive partition is not affected. People say they like to have one drive for OS, another for swapfile, one for this, one for that. I have lived it all, done it every which way, and can tell you there is no good reason!! PPl think Windows is better on its own. WRONG.Fusion2 said:think again, most partition there drives to save there data in case of melt down and to keep M$ under control...
That wouldn't work. You would have to reinstall most software anyways. But regardless, you don't need another partition for that at all.Fusion2 said:say C:\ is 4g of microsuck, and it goes south, all you do is reinstall C and keep all the data on D, E, F, G, etc etc...
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The main use for swap file on its own is if you get low on gigs on the drive, performance wont suffer as much. But Windows comes configured to grab what it can and where. Most ppl dont even mess with that cfg. And for your info as well, swap file SUCKS and is slow!!! Check the numbers on transfer rates from your hard drive vrs your RAM. Why would you want to waste your speed and hard drive space on swapfile when RAM is SOO cheap and SOOO much faster??!! I have had swapfile DISABLED for over FOUR YEARS and it would knock you on the floor to see the diff in speed.Fusion2 said:what about your swap file? in the past 10 years of reading forum post and reviews they've said to make a partition for it? and the many other great reasons for using partitions...
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