should I partition my c: drive

With a 60 Gig hard drive is it a good idea to partition the drive ?
What are the advantages of partitioning ?
I have the program "partition magic "
If partitioning is a good idea what sizes should the partitions be?

thanks

 

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I am of the strong opinion that the C: drive should be no larger than needed to hold the OS and its' related software.

Swap file at a fixed size on another partition.

And all other software installed on other partitons.

Faster scandisk and defrags. doesn't get fragmented as fast.

After that any partition larger than 8gig wastes a tremendous amount of space due to cluster size.

BillyBob

 

Hi

BillyBob's info agrees with what I've found. Some notes I'd make would be that the C: drive grows pretty rapidly even if you only install applications to other drives. I'm pretty careful and mine has grown more than 50% with the "Program Files" folder, My Documents (that I let the kids use), a bloating Temp folder(till I catch it), etc. I've given 98se 4gb for the C:.
D: drive is small, I put the CD image file, Internet temp files (and maybe the swapfile, although I have it at the front of the disk with Norton Utilities at the moment). These can fragment D: drive all they like, without touching the OS.
Others are applications on E:. Pretty big ~18gb and data/backups on F: ~13gb.
I have a 45gb IBM.
I've left free space on the disk, which I can use to increase any drive with Part/magic if needs be.
Any other information would be appreciated by me.
(BB I'll keep the 8gb info in the data banks )

Matt

 

As you may already are seeing, partitioning is a matter of personal preference, both in whether it should be done at all and in how large and how many partitions there should be.

I currently have three partitions. C drive is eight Gigs. D drive is also one GIG and the remaining of the 80 Gigs is the largest. It is mainly for storage.

C drive contains both Windows 98 and Windows 2000 in a dual-boot configuration. Drive D contains all user-created data abd E contains stored programs, ISO files, etc.

That's my two cents.

 

I have a 40 GB Hdd.
C: 4GB contains OS
D: 20 GB for program files
E: 12GB data files
F: 4 GB image of C

I probably should have swapped the sizes of D and E

Partitioning good.