Partitions question?

**2bzy4ne1** · September 24th, 2002, 00:50

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** · September 24th, 2002, 01:33

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** · September 24th, 2002, 01:35

Where do I get it?

**iq_132** · September 24th, 2002, 01:51

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** · September 24th, 2002, 02:25

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** · September 24th, 2002, 06:10

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** · September 24th, 2002, 07:39

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** · September 24th, 2002, 15:20

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** · September 24th, 2002, 16:58

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** · September 24th, 2002, 17:18

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

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