Partitioning a drive

[Elliott Alterman]

Just got XP on a brand new machine. It came with the entire drive allocated
as C: I would like to be able to have 2 logical drives instead of 1.

What are the possible ways to do this and the pluses and minuses of each?

TIA!

Elliott Alterman

 

[Chris Lanier]

It's always a good idea to keep your data and your
operating system on different paritions. so if your
computer crashs you still have you data. to do this u
will need to purchase a third party program such as
Parition magic.

 

[Nicholas]

Windows XP runs best on a single partition formatted NTFS.

NTFS Preinstallation and Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/ntfs-preinstall.asp

Benchmarking on Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/benchmark.asp


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Nicholas

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| Just got XP on a brand new machine. It came with the entire drive allocated
| as C: I would like to be able to have 2 logical drives instead of 1.
|
| What are the possible ways to do this and the pluses and minuses of each?
|
| TIA!
|
| Elliott Alterman

 

[Elliott Alterman]

I recognize the issue but there's another one I have to deal with - ensuring
that files end up in the right directory. It would be much easier to manage
if I could enforce the use of a logical disk other than C.


Windows XP runs best on a single partition formatted NTFS.

NTFS Preinstallation and Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/ntfs-preinstall.asp

Benchmarking on Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/benchmark.asp


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Nicholas

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| Just got XP on a brand new machine. It came with the entire drive
allocated
| as C: I would like to be able to have 2 logical drives instead of 1.
|
| What are the possible ways to do this and the pluses and minuses of each?
|
| TIA!
|
| Elliott Alterman

 

[Lil' Dave]

A brand new PC normally comes with one primary, active partition for the OS.
And, normally, it will be formatted in NTFS for XP. New PCs either have the
full system restoration on CD, or a hidden primary partition. Not to be
confused with going back restore while in XP itself.

Am wondering where the "1" logical drive came from.

XP, or any other MS OS for that matter, has no asset for shrinking
partitions to allow space for another partition. 3rd party products are
required for that.

One detrimental effect to adding physical hard drives and partitions for
them is that windows explorer takes longer to open. Simply adding
partitions to a single hard drive is much less noticable.
Dave