Drive partitions for windows xp installation

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Of course: I have my volume turned up.
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I have found that in terms of organization with the size of drives available
today, it makes sense to have several partitions set up as logical drives. I
have 1 partition with the o/s on it and the programs that won't work unless
they are on the system drive. I set up a second drive as a "copy" drive
exactly the same as my system drive before I upgraded to Windows XP. That
way the programs on my program drives (I have two set up for that), will be
able to draw on the system/system32 dll files when I try to run them. I have
data drives and program copy directories on separate logical drives.

That way I have easy control of what is on my hard drives. I have 2 HDD's.
One is 40gig and one is 120gig.

I do a lot of program evaluation and beta testing so I need to keep it
pretty orderly as I'm constantly crashing the programs.

I'm only giving my setup as an example on what can be done not what should
be done. I have friends who only go onto the net and they never download
programs or music or pictures and they are very comfortable with a single
drive.

They never backup their data and have no idea on how slow the machine gets
without defragging or cleaning out their temp files or internet temp files.

They are happy just to be chugging along and every once in a while they ask
me to check out their machine. I don't try to explain but just do it for
them. As I said they are happy and so am I.

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"purplehaz03" wrote in message
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IMHO -- putting programs on another partition serves no purpose really
except for organization. If it's programs and not data you want to put on
the second partition, if you ever need to format the xp partition or
re-install xp, the programs on the second partition would need to be
re-installed as well, so I don't see the point of putting programs on
another partition. Data on another partition is smart. If you still want
to
put the program on another partition you won't get any performance hit,
it's
just not needed. As for PC world, they are a magazine that gives it's
opinions based on the facts and experience they know, just like we all
give
our opinions here. You decide which way is best for you depending on your
situation.


"Ryan A, Saravanja" wrote in message
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"purplehaz03" wrote in message
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On partition 2 he said other files....... not program files. If by
other
files he means data files, music, videos, pictures, spreadsheets, word
docs,
txt docs, .iso's, personal my documents stuff, etc.... then it is a
good
idea to have two partitons. I agree with the swap file, don't move
that.
Two
partitons will do fine.


I meant the program files. It seems people still se the need to
reinstall
WinXP once a year (i thought that was over) so this just seems easier.
Will
this setup result in a performance hit or will other more serious
problems
result?

And does PCWorld not know what they are talking bout?

I have found that in terms of organization with the size of drives available
today, it makes sense to have several partitions set up as logical drives. I
have 1 partition with the o/s on it and the programs that won't work unless
they are on the system drive. I set up a second drive as a "copy" drive
exactly the same as my system drive before I upgraded to Windows XP. That
way the programs on my program drives (I have two set up for that), will be
able to draw on the system/system32 dll files when I try to run them. I have
data drives and program copy directories on separate logical drives.

That way I have easy control of what is on my hard drives. I have 2 HDD's.
One is 40gig and one is 120gig.

I do a lot of program evaluation and beta testing so I need to keep it
pretty orderly as I'm constantly crashing the programs.

I'm only giving my setup as an example on what can be done not what should
be done. I have friends who only go onto the net and they never download
programs or music or pictures and they are very comfortable with a single
drive.

They never backup their data and have no idea on how slow the machine gets
without defragging or cleaning out their temp files or internet temp files.

They are happy just to be chugging along and every once in a while they ask
me to check out their machine. I don't try to explain but just do it for
them. As I said they are happy and so am I.

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"purplehaz03" wrote in message
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IMHO -- putting programs on another partition serves no purpose really
except for organization. If it's programs and not data you want to put on
the second partition, if you ever need to format the xp partition or
re-install xp, the programs on the second partition would need to be
re-installed as well, so I don't see the point of putting programs on
another partition. Data on another partition is smart. If you still want
to
put the program on another partition you won't get any performance hit,
it's
just not needed. As for PC world, they are a magazine that gives it's
opinions based on the facts and experience they know, just like we all
give
our opinions here. You decide which way is best for you depending on your
situation.


"Ryan A, Saravanja" wrote in message
...

"purplehaz03" wrote in message
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On partition 2 he said other files....... not program files. If by
other
files he means data files, music, videos, pictures, spreadsheets, word
docs,
txt docs, .iso's, personal my documents stuff, etc.... then it is a
good
idea to have two partitons. I agree with the swap file, don't move
that.
Two
partitons will do fine.


I meant the program files. It seems people still se the need to
reinstall
WinXP once a year (i thought that was over) so this just seems easier.
Will
this setup result in a performance hit or will other more serious
problems
result?

And does PCWorld not know what they are talking bout?

I do it to manage clusters. Makes loading and saving easier.

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"purplehaz03" wrote in message
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What are you talking about. What purpose does installing apps (programs)
on
another partition serve? Like I said, data files on another partition is
good, but why would you install programs on another partition?


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|| IMHO -- putting programs on another partition serves no purpose
|| really

OK, who left the door open?

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"purplehaz03" wrote in message
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What are you talking about. What purpose does installing apps (programs)
on
another partition serve? Like I said, data files on another partition is
good, but why would you install programs on another partition?


"Gazwad" Dont Be So FarKing WeeTarDid wrote in message
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purplehaz03 asked wistfully...

|| IMHO -- putting programs on another partition serves no purpose
|| really

OK, who left the door open?

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They are probably coming from the same groups that your idiot self
comes from
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

aside to Relic: which one of the crossposted groups are all these ****ing
idiots coming from?

They are probably coming from the same groups that your idiot self
comes from
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

aside to Relic: which one of the crossposted groups are all these ****ing
idiots coming from?

How would you know about the real world?.. you are always closeted up
in here. I suggest you get out of your mommas house once in a while
and get a life.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:03 +0100, "Gazwad" Dont Be So FarKing
WeeTarDid wrote:

Dan DeStefano asked wistfully...

|| gazwad,
||
|| if you consider what you are writing help, then please do not post
|| anymore. we are all here to help each other and this is made much
|| more pleasant and easy if someone does not have to be subjected to
|| immature name-calling.
||
|| formatting your machine with a single partition is, in fact, not
|| "brain-dead," it is actually the preferred method in windows xp.
|| this is true, otherwise ms would not suggest doing just this, as
|| they do in several kb articles, here is one:
|| http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/...reinstall.asp.
|| plus, the more partitions on your machine, the more you reduce your
|| usable storage capacity as each partition will need to claim some
|| free space for management, journaling, etc; and the more partitions,
|| the more overhead you place on file system management. this is made
|| worse by xp's file placement optimization, because it will have to
|| worry about optimizing file placement on several partitions, instead
|| of just one.
|| additionally, the more partitions you have, the more complex your
|| installation becomes, especially for the novice user.
|| finally, the type of organization you claim to need separate
|| partitions for can be accomplished via the use of folders, with
|| minimal drawbacks.
||
|| in conclusion, next time, if you dont have anything nice to say...
||

Piffle, brain-dead by your own admission you are also a top-posting waste of
skin and air.

I suggest you pull your head out of your M$ arse and look at how things are
done in the real world.

How would you know about the real world?.. you are always closeted up
in here. I suggest you get out of your mommas house once in a while
and get a life.
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:03 +0100, "Gazwad" Dont Be So FarKing
WeeTarDid wrote:

Dan DeStefano asked wistfully...

|| gazwad,
||
|| if you consider what you are writing help, then please do not post
|| anymore. we are all here to help each other and this is made much
|| more pleasant and easy if someone does not have to be subjected to
|| immature name-calling.
||
|| formatting your machine with a single partition is, in fact, not
|| "brain-dead," it is actually the preferred method in windows xp.
|| this is true, otherwise ms would not suggest doing just this, as
|| they do in several kb articles, here is one:
|| http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/...reinstall.asp.
|| plus, the more partitions on your machine, the more you reduce your
|| usable storage capacity as each partition will need to claim some
|| free space for management, journaling, etc; and the more partitions,
|| the more overhead you place on file system management. this is made
|| worse by xp's file placement optimization, because it will have to
|| worry about optimizing file placement on several partitions, instead
|| of just one.
|| additionally, the more partitions you have, the more complex your
|| installation becomes, especially for the novice user.
|| finally, the type of organization you claim to need separate
|| partitions for can be accomplished via the use of folders, with
|| minimal drawbacks.
||
|| in conclusion, next time, if you dont have anything nice to say...
||

Piffle, brain-dead by your own admission you are also a top-posting waste of
skin and air.

I suggest you pull your head out of your M$ arse and look at how things are
done in the real world.

NoneOfBusiness wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:03 +0100, "Gazwad" Dont Be So FarKing
WeeTarDid wrote:

I suggest you pull your head out of your M$ arse and look at how
things are done in the real world.

How would you know about the real world?.. you are always closeted up
in here.

How would you know unless you are also in the same closet?

I suggest you get out of your mommas house once in a while
and get a life.

Congratulations! You have just posted a message on usenet saying that
posting messages on usenet means you don't have a life.

Not to worry... you only have another 14 days worth of posts to get through
to catch up... On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:03 +0100

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

yeah well the infrequency of my posting indicates otherwise.... unlike
you i don't post every hour of every day. i mostly have better things
to do unless i am extremely bored, which i am right now...
On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 12:03:16 +1000, "Kadaitcha Man"
wrote:

NoneOfBusiness wrote:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:03 +0100, "Gazwad" Dont Be So FarKing
WeeTarDid wrote:

I suggest you pull your head out of your M$ arse and look at how
things are done in the real world.

How would you know about the real world?.. you are always closeted up
in here.

How would you know unless you are also in the same closet?

I suggest you get out of your mommas house once in a while
and get a life.

Congratulations! You have just posted a message on usenet saying that
posting messages on usenet means you don't have a life.

Not to worry... you only have another 14 days worth of posts to get through
to catch up... On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:13:03 +0100

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

NoneOfBusiness wrote:

yeah well the infrequency of my posting indicates otherwise.... unlike
you i don't post every hour of every day. i mostly have better things
to do unless i am extremely bored, which i am right now...

Try necking yourself for a fun activity.

lol...

think i am going to go have sex with the wife instead........


On Sun, 27 Apr 2003 13:30:09 +1000, "Kadaitcha Man"
wrote:

NoneOfBusiness wrote:

yeah well the infrequency of my posting indicates otherwise.... unlike
you i don't post every hour of every day. i mostly have better things
to do unless i am extremely bored, which i am right now...

Try necking yourself for a fun activity.

lol...

think i am going to go have sex with the wife instead........

That'll explain your flea problem and the bite marks on the back of your
neck.

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