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[2bzy4ne1]

What are the benifits of having another partition on your hard drive? How would you go on partitioning you hard drive? Is there a program that does that?

[iq_132]

Partition Magic is the best program to partition a hard drive. The benefits of it, are that you can easily put another OS on the second partition. I can't really think of a benefit without having a second OS.

[2bzy4ne1]

Where do I get it?

[iq_132]

http://www.powerquest.com
It's shareware, but it's the best out there :)
Plus you can probably find a way of getting it for free ;)

[Eagle]

It used to be that before the days of LBA motherboards, the mobo could only read 512meg on each partition. So you made one partition out of your entire 2gig hard drive... well, you would still only get to use 512MB of your HD. So people would make many 512mb partitions and maximize their hard drives abilities. Now motherboards have the setting for LBA hard drives and can accomplish it with one partition. The other advantage is dual boot systems as iq mentioned.

[Allnatural]

Having 2+ partitions is good for data back-ups as well. I keep all of my important stuff on a seperate partition so that if (or rather when) Windows decides to "fly south," I won't lose my important stuff. Of course, it's better still to use a second hard drive to protect against hardware failure.

I you want a good, free partition program, there's always FDISK (DOS). However, unlike Partition Magic, all existing data is lost during the process.

[2bzy4ne1]

Originally posted by iq_132
It's shareware, but it's the best out there :)
Plus you can probably find a way of getting it for free ;) Shareware+Free =:innocent:

[AlphaWolf]

Careful with partition magic, its a bit shabby in its schemes (and sometimes you lose all of your data). Your always best off clearing your HDD out and using fdisk to create your partition table from scratch.

[mesman00]

hows mandrakes diskdrake? can that split ntfs partitions, or just fat32's...cause i wanna install mandrake 9.0 when the final version is realeased, but don't wanna have to reformat my whole comp, cuz i don't wanan lose all my stuff

[AlphaWolf]

currently anything linux won't do anything to NTFS partitions other than read them

[zorbid]

I have a dedicated partition for the virtual memory (pagefile.sys), so it is never fragmented :p.

[RJA]

The hard disk drive capacity limit, your are talking about,
usually occurs *only* with 486s- and the limit you are talking about is 504 MB, *NOT* 528 MB, or 512 MB.

[RJA]

Is it just me?

I noticed a *MAJOR* bug with FDISK,
but only occurs with my Maxtor 80 GB UDMA 100 HDD:

FDISK wrongly "thinks" my new Maxtor 80 GB hard disk drive is only 12,976MB!

..But my Maxtor 13 GB UDMA 66 HDD works correctly
with FDISK and reports 13,029 MB.

..So I *must* use Partition Magic.

Has *anyone* else seen this FDISK bug?

[AlphaWolf]

Originally posted by zorbid
I have a dedicated partition for the virtual memory (pagefile.sys), so it is never fragmented :p.

Thats a good idea, unix OSes work the same way, windows makes it a pain in the ass for you though, especialy XP because it always wants to tell you that the partition has no space free even though you are already well aware of the fact.

[Allnatural]

Originally posted by RJA
Is it just me?

I noticed a *MAJOR* bug with FDISK,
but only occurs with my Maxtor 80 GB UDMA 100 HDD:

FDISK wrongly "thinks" my new Maxtor 80 GB hard disk drive is only 12,976MB!

..But my Maxtor 13 GB UDMA 66 HDD works correctly
with FDISK and reports 13,029 MB.

..So I *must* use Partition Magic.

Has *anyone* else seen this FDISK bug?
Read this (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q263044).

[iq_132]

ftp://ftp.powerquest.com/pub/press/PartitionMagic/ENPM800RETAILDEMO.ZIP
Legal download, Powerquest F***ed up and made it so that any key works.

[2bzy4ne1]

just came here to tell you guys that partition magic worked and now i have an NTFS partition on my hard drive. I love the compress feature that comes with this file system. :D

[iq_132]

Great. Happy to help :)

[AlphaWolf]

Originally posted by 2bzy4ne1
just came here to tell you guys that partition magic worked and now i have an NTFS partition on my hard drive. I love the compress feature that comes with this file system. :D

don't forget to chkdsk that partition, remember pm isn't perfect.

[ra5555]

Originally posted by 2bzy4ne1
Where do I get it?

Careful with Partition Magic, it once crashed during the process of Partitioning in windows ??? creating a lot of truble. if you have the time format your harddrive and use fdisk.

[2bzy4ne1]

Originally posted by AlphaWolf
don't forget to chkdsk that partition, remember pm isn't perfect. Just used chkdsk a few moments ago and everything came out fine.

Originally posted by ra5555
Careful with Partition Magic, it once crashed during the process of Partitioning in windows ??? creating a lot of truble. if you have the time format your harddrive and use fdisk.I will be careful. I have the important data backed up already. :thumbsup:

[Mirco Muck]

Originally posted by RJA
Is it just me?

I noticed a *MAJOR* bug with FDISK,
but only occurs with my Maxtor 80 GB UDMA 100 HDD:

FDISK wrongly "thinks" my new Maxtor 80 GB hard disk drive is only 12,976MB!

..But my Maxtor 13 GB UDMA 66 HDD works correctly
with FDISK and reports 13,029 MB.

..So I *must* use Partition Magic.

Has *anyone* else seen this FDISK bug?

Its a known issue in FDisk. It warps Disk-Sizes around 64 GB (MOD-Function). You can still use it to partition your HD, but have got to use % rather than MB.

[Stezo2k]

sounds kinda fucked up partitioning your HD, dont think i ever will :P NTFS sounds good, but it will be hard for me to format when i get an upgrade :(

Stez

[zorbid]

Originally posted by AlphaWolf
Originally posted by zorbid
I have a dedicated partition for the virtual memory (pagefile.sys), so it is never fragmented :p.

Thats a good idea, unix OSes work the same way, windows makes it a pain in the ass for you though, especialy XP because it always wants to tell you that the partition has no space free even though you are already well aware of the fact.
There is a registry tweak, you must create a 'nolowdiskspacecheck' key somewhere. Check unofficial winXP support sites, you should find the exact trick.

A very nice thing is, if you have enough RAM (1Gig should do it), to create a 512 Mo RAMdisk, and put the pagefile.sys on it.

[DiaBlo666]

i usually use two partitions cuz i put windows on first one then my whole backup at other drive.. if windows "fly south" (like someone just said here) i just need to format c and i dont lose anything except config...

[iq_132]

I wish I had enough disk space to do that DiaBlo666, but alas, I have used just about half of my disk space on both drives :(

[DiaBlo666]

iq_132 i m using a 17 gb hdd..
drive C is 3 gb then rest goes to next drive..
im getting a new 80 gb hdd soon so ill be using like 4,5 gb for OS then 70 gb for stuff..

[Allnatural]

I have three drives, two in RAID 0, and one for storage and backups. As soon as some new parts arrive I'm going to re-partition my RAID array into two partitions, one for Windows and one for programs. That way I can use to Ghost to image my Windows partition periodically, and when things go bad I can preserve my shortcuts when restoring.:)