HD PARTITIONS

Just bough a 340gb HD, and I've added to my PC, wich had a 120gb HD.

Ok, I need partitioning.

Wich partitions do I create?

I need:
-Windows OS
-Documents (important stuff and so)
-A 25gb partition (backup for mp3 player)
-emule downloads + temporals
-?????
-PROFIT!

thx in advance

On really big drives, I'll make 3 partitions:
1.  The O/S and permanently installed progs (such as MS Orifice etc)
2.  Other programs of a not-so-permanent nature (mainly games and stupid huge 3d packages) - this also holds temporary data of any kind (caches, DVD images etc)
3.  Data  - this holds all my data (including AV stuff)

Everything else can be a sub-directory .  There's no real point in making too many partitions on your HD, you just end up running out of drive letters and with the newer disk systems there's little physical advantage any more.

But now I've installed the OS in the 120gb HD, and I'd like to keep it, and not to reinstall everything.

So I was thinking in something like keeping the OS in the 120 gb, and letting all games, porn and stuff in the huge one.

>>3

Yup - sounds about right.  The only other thing to put in your 120g partition would be your 'permanent' proggies like office, photoshop, Nero, antivirus & firewall software etc.

At the moment I've got 3 physical hard drives (1 internal, 2 external).  The internal one (160gb) is split in two and holds the OS and essential progs in the main partition, and frequently used stuff in the rest.  Of the 2 external ones (both 500 Gb), one is intact for AV stuff, the other is split in two, part for games progs etc., and the other part is for a backup (acronis) of my internal drive.

>>4
k, I'll do like that:

120 gb: windows + freq used stuff (documents etc)
340 gb: prog, AV, mp3 backup, and so.


thx 4chan <3

thank world4ch. and don't you forget it

>>5

Just one proviso there - DON'T put data with programs.  It causes difficulties with backing up stuff.  Your data (documents etc) change on a daily basis, but the programs don't - so when you've installed the programs, you only need to back up when you (infrequently) install something new, but the data will need to be backed up much more frequently.  If you mix it all up, you'll probably end up either not backing up often enough, or wasting backup media and time backing up static stuff too frequently.