LVirus Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 Heh, I got : C: (Operating System and utilities plus personal files) (8GB) D: (Games, installed ones) (12GB) E: (Appz,Gamez .. ya know, warez? ;)) (60GB) F: (Videoz .. to store all farscapes, stargates, moviez etc) (80GB) I: (Anime only! And 2gb free only here :(.) (120GB) So I have 3 HDDs, 2x 80gb maxtors and 1x 120gb maxtors. I am planning to fetch another 120gb to make another anime hdd .. Cant get enought anime ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLOSifl Posted December 21, 2001 Share Posted December 21, 2001 That's retarded...how does that help? I'd rather keep my partitions large, so if I decide one day that I want to dump some MP3s and install a few large apps, I don't have to repartition. I have three harddisks at work, one of them partitioned into a swap drive and 18GB of space. All of them are mounted in various parts of my filesystem, such as C:Swapfile for the swapdrive, a whole 20GB disk mounted to my documents (which contains my music and othe rlarge directories), the other 18GB of the one disk mounted to program files, and the other one for everything else. It's much easier than having 23 different drive letters. I even mounted my floppy drive to Documents and SettingAll UsersDesktopFloppy so I don't have an A: drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treebeard68 Posted December 23, 2001 Share Posted December 23, 2001 C: Windows 2000 D: Music E: Apps. F: Video G: Photo H: My Documents I: My Downloads L: Linux Mandrake 8.1 All partitions roughly 7.5 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJediMedia Posted December 23, 2001 Author Share Posted December 23, 2001 Originally posted by SLOSifl That's retarded...how does that help? I'd rather keep my partitions large, so if I decide one day that I want to dump some MP3s and install a few large apps, I don't have to repartition. I assume you are talking to me... Well, I have just ONE harddrive 60GBs, so far it's suffient!!! Maybe 1/2 year later, I would get my Hard Drive full, and I need Another HardDrive of 100GB or bigger. Resizing won't be a problem, if you have the Partition Magic tool, it's great. It does it without affecting your files at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted December 23, 2001 Share Posted December 23, 2001 I have two partitions on a 10gig hard drive 5.86 GB NTFS 3.45 GB Unalocated for just incase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YahoKa Posted December 23, 2001 Share Posted December 23, 2001 8 partitions... congrats, you officialy have the slowest hard drive of us all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJediMedia Posted December 24, 2001 Author Share Posted December 24, 2001 Originally posted by YahoKa 8 partitions... congrats, you officialy have the slowest hard drive of us all... Hardly!!! I partitioned it, and it's FASTER!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJediMedia Posted December 24, 2001 Author Share Posted December 24, 2001 I just like to Organize it on Different Drive letters, instead of Folders. Like I said, Defragmentation is easier to DO. I NO longer have to defrag every file just because some files screwed it up. I know what I am doing... It's Faster than EVER!!! Defragment Analysis shows 0% Fragment on most Partitions!!! Another reason why the Partition is useful! Scan for Viruses... since a virus Can't be attached to Media files, pics, movies, you only have to scan drives with executable files. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimman Posted December 24, 2001 Share Posted December 24, 2001 or, you could simply scan ONLY executables *yawn* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zivan56 Posted December 24, 2001 Share Posted December 24, 2001 I have over 10 network drives :D and 3 partitions on my laptop 8BG c: Windows 2000 Prof 2GB Linux ext2 120MB Linux swap and network drives for projects, programs, backup, etc (located on my other comp). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted December 24, 2001 Share Posted December 24, 2001 Markass, why should you put yourself in such position? Ofcourse some but not many have that advantage. If those that don't believe your computer spec, then don't need to so defensive about it. But let me say you have a superb gadget that is not for home use. Looks like you want to turn your home computers to a cray computer or something... but dang... that is one heck of a computer you got... 4gig of RAM and expandable to 64 max... and your mother board is capable of accepting 32 CPUs? Hmmm.... some people... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest foo Posted December 25, 2001 Share Posted December 25, 2001 Well I have 8 partitions. OS, Programs, Games, MP3, Movies1, Other Multimedia, Backup, Downloads. Thinking of adding one or two more. Gotta keep stuff organized and efficient foo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Zog Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 I got 3 Drives.. 3 Maxtor 100GB's.. :D 4 Partitions C - Windows - 10 GB D - Games - 90GB E - MP3's - 100GB F - ISO's.. :D - 100GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtgriffith Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 Be careful with the size of your system partition. I have trouble with this at work all the time because we didn't realize this was a problem until we had set up several the wrong way. My C: is 7.8 GB and my D: is 49.4 GB. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...b;en-us;Q114841 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C@N'T }{1T $}{1 Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 Hard Disks: /Total/Free: 100.14/43.72GB ? Total/Free space on: C: 17.89GB/7.85GB ? D: 24.2GB/2.23GB ? E: 17.89GB/9.41GB ? F: 17.89GB/9.25GB ? G: 17.87GB/10.6GB ? H: 4.39GB/4.39GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ves007 Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 5 C 5.12 D 1.86 E 1.86 F 1.86 G 1.86 Hoping to get a new pc soon with a 100 GB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 And the point of having that many partitions = ? I can't understand why people bother having more than one partition per drive (unless they have different operating systems). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimman Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 well... as many partitions as some ppl are showing off is just plain stupid =P my first 6gb of my smallest disk are system. the rest is a download/games/temp disk... well, u c from my post what i mean. and then i have a ftp-server too which i keep on my 80gb-disk, also shown in my post. that's what i think is "sane" ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvorgold Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 c:/Windows 98: 6.97 Gig d:/Windows XP 38.1 Gig (7200 RPM drive) e:/stuff 1.02 Gig (just a spare partition which was originally a Linux Partition) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autodefe Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 I just got a new 80GB for christmas :) I have 5 partitions set up across 4 physical drives. Check it out: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimman Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 what's the point in blurring the disc-names cept for making me curious? =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike11212 Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 I have 1 Patition on each of my drives I have 5 drives 2 2 20GB 1 80gb 2 15gb 4 of them are empty :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kintamanate Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 i read thru all the posts and i still cant figure out what the point of breaking up an already small hard drive...into more itty bitty pieces. like common, why the heck have a 5 gb hd into 1.7 gb pieces? if i broke my 110 gb hard drives into aprox same amount as the creator of this thread i would have 15+ hard drives. you people are nuts. keep it simple i have c: 21.5 GB d: 21.5 GB e: 18.5 GB f: 21.5 GB h: 21.5 GB :right: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberscope Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 i still think partitioning your HD in to 8 itty pieces is basically KILLING it! hehe :knocked: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grimman Posted December 31, 2001 Share Posted December 31, 2001 two partitions is enough... three is pushing it and four, well... that's WAY off my scale! shouldn't even talk five and up :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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