What sort of patition set do you have?

I have just got my new pc. 200 gb hard drive.
It came with Partition Magic so I will set up sum partitions. The thing is that I am not really sure what to partition and what sizes to give each partition.

What does your partition set up look like?

If I install all my programs on a seperate partition how does it work when they need to install things in the registery

Thanks Guys and Gals

Chris

 

80GB drive
> System - 6-7GBs
> Programs - 20GBs
> Data - 10GB
> Large Files - 30 GBs (audio/graphics/video/etc)
> Temp Files - 1 GB
> Backup - 12GBs

The key, I think, is to keep Windows on it's own and programs on their own. The rest is obviously, up to you.
I have Data on it's own, so it's easier to backup.
And, large data files apart from the rest to make defragging the Data partition easier without having the large files to move around.
Temp, just to keep them from causing fragmentation on the System partition, and to try and ensure that whatever is put there is, in theory, temporary and thus deleteable.
I use Karen's Replicator that runs daily on various folders (all data, favorites, desktop, etc) and copies changed files over to the Backup folder.
If you have image software such as Ghost, you can ghost the system partition onto a backup partition.

 

120GB SATA drive roughly partitioned equally in two. XP installed on the first partition. W2K3 installed on the other. Works for my simple needs. I also have a 40GB IDE ATA100 drive for backups etc.

 

60 gig main drive and 40mgig for backups, etc. Both single partitioned. A large measure of folks are like me, have no XP install disk and would have to use the Recovery method supplied by the OEM. With that, I'd lose any partitions I create since it came as a single gutted beast. I'd also lose all connection to any programs installed on a second drive so I avoid doing that.

I use disk imaging (backups stored on the second drive) and never plan on reinstalling the system any other way (haven't had to since Win95 days). This method is just so easy, I choose not to complicate things. For folks in my boat, it makes sense but your needs may be different.

 

Mine is a HP with the hidden partition method, or rather it was until I wiped the drive clean after the warranty expired. I regained the space and prefer to use disk imaging for any backup needs. I was never quite sure how the hidden partition restore would treat new partitions so opted out of that method.

 

1 x 160GB.