Partition my HD?

Cyan007 · Feb 15, 2003, 10:26 AM

I'm still new at this hard drive stuff... well to a certain degree. I have a Western Digital 80 GB 7200 RPM hard drive, I'm told I should partition it. What are the advantages of this? How do I go about doing it properly?

ToshiroOC · Feb 15, 2003, 08:06 PM

How do you intend to partition it? One big partition? Several little ones? Regardless of how though, Partition Magic (8.0 now I think) is simply the best partitioning program out there...

digitalwanderer · Feb 15, 2003, 08:25 PM

I just use "fdisk" in dos and do it the old fashioned way. I just had to rebuild me 40Gb yesterday and I made 2-6Gb drives for me 98se/XP installs, 2-10Gb drives for general use, 1-5Gb for games, & 1-2.2Gb for "emergency storage"(OS CDs, drivers, tools, utilities, etc.) It works well.

Feb 15, 2003, 10:26 AM	#1
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Feb 15, 2003, 08:06 PM	#2
ToshiroOC Unbiased. Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 4,812 Rep Power: 0	How do you intend to partition it? One big partition? Several little ones? Regardless of how though, Partition Magic (8.0 now I think) is simply the best partitioning program out there... __________________ [img][/img] [color=White]Peace be with you, Joe.[/color] Driverheaven Staff Member (Supermoderator)

Feb 15, 2003, 08:25 PM	#3
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,620 Rep Power: 0	fdisk I just use "fdisk" in dos and do it the old fashioned way. I just had to rebuild me 40Gb yesterday and I made 2-6Gb drives for me 98se/XP installs, 2-10Gb drives for general use, 1-5Gb for games, & 1-2.2Gb for "emergency storage"(OS CDs, drivers, tools, utilities, etc.) It works well. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?