Hard drive partitioning

[cha_sl]

guys,
i moved to vista last week and soon found out my ancient 13.9 is not enough for the os.
so i bought this Maxtor 160 yesterday.. and as usual i got problem with that..(last time ram) he hee, u can see that too
and can someone tell me the best way to partition this ..

 

[AlienX]

having only 1 partition is very bad...
having too many partitions is also very bad. waste of space..

Have something in the middle...

eg : if U have a 160 GB HDD having 1 partition is bad. But if U have like 10+ partitions is also useless... So have sth link 4-5

 

[cha_sl]

having only 1 partition is very bad...
having too many partitions is also very bad. waste of space..

Have something in the middle...

eg : if U have a 160 GB HDD having 1 partition is bad. But if U have like 10+ partitions is also useless... So have sth link 4-5

i was thinking the same.. , can u explain what happen to the rest of that 160GB, 11GB is missing..

 

[MCLINER]

I hav 3

 

[isharackp]

4 partitions!

 

[cha_sl]

having only 1 partition is very bad...
having too many partitions is also very bad. waste of space..

Have something in the middle...

eg : if U have a 160 GB HDD having 1 partition is bad. But if U have like 10+ partitions is also useless... So have sth link 4-5

hmm, partition magic is not working for vista, can you tell me how to do it..

 

[AlienX]

i was thinking the same.. , can u explain what happen to the rest of that 160GB, 11GB is missing..

partition tables kiyanneth data ne... ewa thiya gannath space epai...

thats why...

if you have too many paritions. space is wasted to keep partition table information..

if you have only 1 partition if anything goes wrong with the OS sorry.com data walata..


hope U get the idea..

Cheers,

 

[ruka max]

4 partitions....

 

[AlienX]

hmm, partition magic is not working for vista, can you tell me how to do it..

there is a new partition magic version which supports vista...

What I do is, I do a partitioning with XP using partition magic.
then install vista..

EasyBCD is a good sw for bootloader management in Vista...

personally I dont like vista...
I stick up with XP pro SP2 . Its powerful & robust & less resource eating


Cheers

 

[sutherland.g.m]

mage nam 3

 

[Sujakshan]

4 paritions

 

[shalinda]

i hv 250 GB sata 4 Partitions

 

[chanster]

4 partitions 80GB

 

[TDM]

i have 5 partitions,, there only 2 real partitions,,others are virtual partitions..

 

[Anusha]

partition tables kiyanneth data ne... ewa thiya gannath space epai...

thats why...

if you have too many paritions. space is wasted to keep partition table information..

if you have only 1 partition if anything goes wrong with the OS sorry.com data walata..


hope U get the idea..

Cheers,

Wrong answer.

Why he has 11GB less is because, Windows uses the 1024 byte = 1kB etc. (it should be KiB, but...) convention, but hard disk manufacturers opt for 1000byte = 1kB etc convention.

so, 160,000,000,000/1024^3 = 149.01GiB

cha_sl, you are not missing ANYTHING!

P.S.
Of course there is some space reserved for the partition table and indexes, BUT they are negligible compared to 160GB (or 149GiB)

 

[Anusha]

hmm, partition magic is not working for vista, can you tell me how to do it..

Please don't use Partition Magic, if you have any love for the data on your discs. I have lost my entire data once, and many people in EK have had the same experience. Your mileage will definitely vary, but it ain't a wise decision to go with that.

Use Acronis Disk Director. Awesome, and very very reliable.

 

[chanakacm]

only 4 partition

1.C:= 12 Gb
2.D:=18 Gb
3.E:=50 Gb
4.D:320 Gb

 

[geethq]

2y