Partitions

[MC]

I'm setting up a new XP pro installation and am having a dilemma over
partitions. I have a Maxtor 250GB SATA drive that I want to split into 2
partitions; a system partition of about 30GB and the rest for data. Maxtor
recommend using their software to partition & format drives, not
Microsoft's. Having done this I end up with a primary partition for the
system and an extended partition with a logical drive in for the data. My
question is what the difference is in terms of performance etc. I know
there are various limitations on the number of logical drives in an extended
partitions and so on but don't really care about that, more the reliability
/ performance.


Thanks guys

MC

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm setting up a new XP pro installation and am having a dilemma over
partitions. I have a Maxtor 250GB SATA drive that I want to split into 2
partitions; a system partition of about 30GB and the rest for data. Maxtor
recommend using their software to partition & format drives, not
Microsoft's. Having done this I end up with a primary partition for the
system and an extended partition with a logical drive in for the data. My
question is what the difference is in terms of performance etc. I know
there are various limitations on the number of logical drives in an extended
partitions and so on but don't really care about that, more the reliability
/ performance.


Thanks guys

MC

No difference whatsoever in performance.
(By the way, I think your crossposts are a little
overdone for such a simple issue.)

 

[Tom]

I'm setting up a new XP pro installation and am having a dilemma over
partitions. I have a Maxtor 250GB SATA drive that I want to split into 2
partitions; a system partition of about 30GB and the rest for data. Maxtor
recommend using their software to partition & format drives, not
Microsoft's. Having done this I end up with a primary partition for the
system and an extended partition with a logical drive in for the data. My
question is what the difference is in terms of performance etc. I know
there are various limitations on the number of logical drives in an extended
partitions and so on but don't really care about that, more the reliability
/ performance.


Thanks guys

MC

It is fine to do that the way you just stated, and I am fairly sure you have
this all in the NTFS file system. You also don't need to have this on a
extended logical, and the partition can be Primary too. It is good to do it
the way you stated, because you can backup your important data to the
non-system partition, and still have it, in case you need to reinstall
Windows again on the system partition, because of some unforseen problem
that would require a total reinstallation of XP.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

It is fine to do that the way you just stated, and I am fairly sure you have
this all in the NTFS file system. You also don't need to have this on a
extended logical, and the partition can be Primary too. It is good to do it
the way you stated, because you can backup your important data to the
non-system partition, and still have it, in case you need to reinstall
Windows again on the system partition, because of some unforseen problem
that would require a total reinstallation of XP.

Tom,

just want to mention briefly that some people argue that point,
stating just the opposite. Folders serve the same purpose as
partitions.

One point is also that by partitioning the drive you're hacking
its most valuable asset into pieces---its free space.

Hans-Georg

 

[Thomas]

just want to mention briefly that some people argue that point,
stating just the opposite. Folders serve the same purpose as
partitions.

One point is also that by partitioning the drive you're hacking
its most valuable asset into pieces---its free space.

1) You cannot 'format C:' and not format your 'save' folder
2) Oh my, he's only got 250 GB, how sad will he be, to be left with only
249.999 GB ;-)

Thomas