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Resolved Hard Drive Partitioning

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by nikixmina, 2010/01/13.

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    nikixmina

    nikixmina Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm curious and don't know if this is in the right section but when you partition your hard drive and install windows XP Home edition SP2 do you need to install games on the same partition as windows XP Home edition SP2
    is on? I'm just here to get it clarified since when I did that none of the programs I install on the C partition (my main one) they don't work and I have windows on partition D (Windows). Hope I'm not wasting anyones time I'm just curious for future reference when partitioning your hard Drive. They're both on a NTFS file system.

    -Robert
     
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    chas berlin

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    Hi Robert, Do I understand that you have two partitions on your HD - C: which contains your programs, and D: which contains Windows XP?
    Is there a reason for separating the programs from XP?
    I have my XP and programs on C: and use the other partitions for storing data files.
     

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    Robert,

    When you click on the game, what happens? Do you click a Desktop icon or something else?
     
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    Go to My Computer, right-click on both the C: drive and the D: drive, go to Properties and look for the Used space and Free space information. Report those readings back to us.

    If it hasn't been said, welcome to the BBS! :)

    Matt
     
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    JCinvan

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    I always install software to a different partition than the system (C: ) this keeps my system partition small for back-up purposes. I don't need to back-up program files (easily reinstalled if needed).
    I also keep the pagefile.sys on non-system drives.

    I also prefer to keep all my data files on large partitions organized in folders.

    This may be different in Xp, but the partition that I boot from will always show as C: regardless of which drive I boot from.
     
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    PeteC

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    By default any OS will install on C:\ drive and that is the drive all programs will look to install to by default.

    Any idea how you ended up with XP on D:\ drive - did you dual boot at some time?
     
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    All you have to do is being silly like me and install XP while you have a USB stick still connected, this way your USB will be C:\
     
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    nikixmina

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    I was testing a Theory of mine due to the fact as of late I've had problems for about a week now with Something going wrong within my Hard Drive or the file system. The Massive problems are finally gone I believe, However each time I got a severe problem, the Stop Code I got was different each time. So then I decided what if I make a new partition and give windows it's own little space to live? The drive D was about 3.74gb if I remember correct in size and my main one was about 60ish (don't remember as I have gotten rid of that partition and reformatted my Hard Drive). Also to answer jpChris's question whenever I opened a program it would show the busy sign then suddenly stop. As with a downloadable MMORPG I play rarely called Flyff The patcher came up but soon as I hit start it disappears and nothing happens. To PeteC's Question I simply selected the D: partition and told it to install windows there and formatted both of the partitions.

    Also my computer returned to working order until I installed Direct X10 then my computer died again due to a missing mrvcrt.dll file. I've had more system failures in this last week then I've had in all 3~4 years I've had this computer. But I got it back up once more and haven't touched it yet since I had to go to bed.
    Thanks for your replies!

    -Robert
     
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    chas berlin

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    Yeow!!! :eek:

    Glad it's back up. :)
     
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    nikixmina

    nikixmina Inactive Thread Starter

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    Yeah for the moment, however I believe I need a new Hard drive cause now I'm getting cyclic redundacy errors now. I wonder if the spindals on the Hard disk are damage?
     
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    chas berlin

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    How old is this drive, and what is it?
    IDE, SATA?
     
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    nikixmina

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    IDE (Assuming thats the one that uses Slave cables/Ribbon cord) and it has some age;probably about 4~6 years roughly if not more.
     
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    chas berlin

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    Sounds like a good excuse for a new drive. You can get a huge drive dirt cheap these days. Trying to remember where I got my last one.
    Actually my last one was a replacement from Seagate. People all have opinions, but I'll say this, Seagate replaced an IDE drive that was a yr old, w/ a much larger, faster drive - at no charge. Granted I negotiated w/ them a bit, but they did it.
    Have a look here (at the 1st drive listed). $60 for 500GB that's a steal!
    http://shop.ebay.com/items/gb hard ...&MT_ID=69&tt_encode=raw&adgroup_id=1255230094

    Keep us posted. :)
     
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    nikixmina

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    Well normally I just buy my hardware at newegg. But I won't have money until the 20th and I had other plans for what I wanted to spend my money on too. As for getting a large hard drive the most I really need is about 100ish gb's since I'm not as hardcore of a PC gamer as I used to be since no "good" games for my tastes have been made recently. The only things I'll be buying as far as games is StarCraft II, Dawn of war II + the expansion once it comes out, and Diablo III depending on weather it's pure online and if so if it's you only pay retail with free online.
     
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    JCinvan

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    That's odd USB are usually last, my stick is always listed last (K: or L: )

    Before giving up on your drive, here's a few things to do:
    - make sure your connectors are tight and all the way in (if you have an adapter (that powers a fan) connected in series with the drive, remove it or connect it to an unused cable).
    - run a disk check: right-click the drive> properties> tools> error-checking> check now...
    - try recovery software: Pandora Recovery 2.1.1 (you do need another drive to recover files to).

    Smaller may not be cheaper... I checked NewEgg and 500 Gb is only an extra $15.

    XP is likely to be chocked in this small a space, I always gave it at least 10 Gb...
     
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    Mine too. I can't imagine any way that you could get a usb drive to be the C: drive. Not possible as far as I know.
     
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    chas berlin

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    I read somewhere (here on this forum) that the Windows partition should have at least 25% free space - I'm supporting what JC just suggested.
    I went ahead and increased the size of my C: (it contains XP plus my programs), so that I now have 50% free space there.
    Hope this helps. :)
     
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    JCinvan

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    @ Chas: Good move, the more free space the better, this will also allow more restore points to chose from, if that's something you use.
     
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    Hi nikixmina,

    As JCinvan said, "XP is likely to be chocked in this small a space . . . ". After install and SP updates, programs that won't install anywhere else, restore points, and your page file, you'll probably get "low disk space" nag screens. Plus, defrag might be a nightmare, too. Go with JC's advice and set the partition to 10GB or so; you won't be sorry.
     
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    chas berlin

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    JC, I don't recall - was that you who made this suggestion?
    If so, I didn't want to mess w/ the partitions at the time because too much was going on, though as you can see I took your(?) advice.
     

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