best way to partition drive

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I have a new 120 gb western digital and need to know the
best way to partition for good performance and
orginization. I will be using windows xp home edition and
will be using a lot of music files
 
You can format the drive in recovery,boot from xp cd,
or in cmd prompt,type:FORMAT D: /FS:ntfs (D: the hd)
Or type:DiskPart
Then type:HELP for info
Set the hd as 60/40 for partitions,although making a
partition in most cases w/o running another os doesnt
do much for the system except for storage.Leaving the
old hard drive connected and useing that w/o partitioning
the new makes more sence,plus set up as page file for xp.
 
I'd suggest buying a copy of Partition Magic to use for this task. I am
of the school that thinks it is a good idea to have a partition for your
data files, but I don't think you need more than one. Therefore plan on
having 30 to 40 GB of elbow room for your operating system, its swap file
and your applications, and allocating the balance to your data files.
Organize those by folder rather than by partitions. This will give you a C:
drive (for your operating system, applications and swap file) and a D: drive
(for your data).
 
john said:
I have a new 120 gb western digital and need to know the
best way to partition for good performance and
orginization. I will be using windows xp home edition and
will be using a lot of music files
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John,

the best way is not to partition it at all, but use only one
primary, active partition.

Of course this is a religious statement, as nobody argues
conscientiously through all the pros and cons. :-)

Let me at least say that you shouldn't hack the most valuable
asset of your new, big drive into pieces of arbitrary
sizes---its free space.

Hans-Georg
 
John,

Since we are talking about one physical hard drive, creating multiple
partitions will not have any performance gain since drive access will still
be all occurring on the same physical drive. So this will boil down to your
preference of how you want it partitioned .
 
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