Hello....


Ok Vista's disk management is a whole lot diffrent than Xp's one thing is that you can not create an 'extended' partition unless you have 4 'primary' partition's, not I have a 250GB hard drive I want to make two partiotions out of it 1 for C: (windows) and other d: for my stuff,

Now in the year I used my computer I always created a partiotons like this... 1 primary 2extended and within '2' a logical drive...

What I want to know is how should I partition my drive in Vista? was the partioning I was doing in Xp, was wrong and I should have two primary disks rather than 1 primary and the other extended inta A logical drive?

Hope you get what I said

If I understand correctly, then you want two primary partitions.  Just make sure the partition with Vista on it comes first (If you didn't know).  When I first started messing with partitions, I put it last, and kinda screwed things up.

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Originally posted by Woraug
If I understand correctly, then you want two primary partitions.  Just make sure the partition with Vista on it comes first (If you didn't know).  When I first started messing with partitions, I put it last, and kinda screwed things up.

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Originally posted by WaqasTariq
a) C: primary D: logical drive in an extended partiton
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b) C: primary D: primary
which is the best way of doing it?

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So I should go with 'b) C: primary D: primary' as it wont make any diffrence right?

It shouldn't make any difference. The only distinction is, you can only boot from primary partitions, so if you ever plan to multiboot, make sure you've got a primary spare. It's not really an issue though

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Originally posted by Verte
It shouldn't make any difference. The only distinction is, you can only boot from primary partitions, so if you ever plan to multiboot, make sure you've got a primary spare. It's not really an issue though

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Originally posted by WaqasTariq
Ok... Can I know how you people have your hard drives partitioned???

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On this computer,
hda1 [38 GB] = C:
hdb1 [6 GB] = /
hdb5 [512 MB] = swap

It's no more difficult to make your non-boot partitions extended partitions rather than primary partitions, so there's no reason not to, even though it's very rare that most people will run out of primary partitions anyway.

You may run out if you've set up a primary partition for Windows and a primary for data, and then you want to install more versions of Windows or some Unixen, or whatever the flavour of the week is. [note: Unixen can typically share /boot, which needs to be an/on a primary partition].

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Originally posted by Adeptus

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Originally posted by WaqasTariq
Ok... Can I know how you people have your hard drives partitioned???

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Disk 1 (36GB) - one partition (C: ), Windows system volume and applications.

Disk 2 (200GB) - two partitions.  4GB (S: ) for swap, Windows temporary files, browser cache.  Second partition is the rest of the drive and used for data, inlcuding redirected "My Documents".

Disk 3 (500GB) - one partition, large rarely used files (such as movie downloads, software setup files, CD and DVD images).

The swap/temp partition really should be on the 500GB disk, because it is the least frequently accessed, but it was added later.  I should also note that the swap/temp partition only makes sense if you have more than one physical drive, and that if I was doing it today, I would get a bigger drive for the system volume (it is a fast 10,000rpm drive, but 36GB is a little tight).

The hardware specs in your signature suggest you have 250GB, presumably a single drive.  If I were you, I would probably partition that into 50-60GB system volume (C: ), the rest for data.  Separating data from the OS and apps is still a good idea -- it makes it much simpler to reinstall things, if needed.

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Originally posted by Verte
On this computer,
hda1 [38 GB] = C:
hdb1 [6 GB] = /
hdb5 [512 MB] = swap

It's no more difficult to make your non-boot partitions extended partitions rather than primary partitions, so there's no reason not to, even though it's very rare that most people will run out of primary partitions anyway.

You may run out if you've set up a primary partition for Windows and a primary for data, and then you want to install more versions of Windows or some Unixen, or whatever the flavour of the week is. [note: Unixen can typically share /boot, which needs to be an/on a primary partition].

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200 GB for Windows? Isn't that a bit much?

Edit: My setup:

Disk 1:
C: For XP, software, My Documents etc. - 170 GB
F: For Vista (I mainly use XP) - 20 GB

Disk 2:
D: Files - 230 GB

160GB SATA drive having 4 equal sized partitions. First for Windows, second for my storage files (downloads, installers etc), third for games and fourth for music, videos and movies.
I also have an old 40GB ATA drive which has no partitions and is used for storage of projects and other such stuff.

What I would like to do the next time I partition is to make a 20gb partition for windows and keep the remaining 130GB (or 140GiB ) for all my other stuff. This way my torrents and other storage can take up more space than 40gb without me having to make space.
200GB isn't enough so I just burn stuff off to dvds when I don't need them. A ritual I perform every 2-3 months.

Ideally, I would add a 500/512GB SATA drive and be done with it but I'd rather not spend that much on an hdd right now. Got different hardware to expand first viz. another gig of ram, another LCD and a mx revolution. The latter 2 are future plans but the first one should come soon

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Originally posted by WaqasTariq
MTB: Intel D965RY

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Originally posted by Vilkku
200 GB for Windows? Isn't that a bit much?

Edit: My setup:

Disk 1:
C: For XP, software, My Documents etc. - 170 GB
F: For Vista (I mainly use XP) - 20 GB

Disk 2:
D: Files - 230 GB

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Originally posted by John Anderton
160GB SATA drive having 4 equal sized partitions. First for Windows, second for my storage files (downloads, installers etc), third for games and fourth for music, videos and movies.
I also have an old 40GB ATA drive which has no partitions and is used for storage of projects and other such stuff.

What I would like to do the next time I partition is to make a 20gb partition for windows and keep the remaining 130GB (or 140GiB ) for all my other stuff. This way my torrents and other storage can take up more space than 40gb without me having to make space.
200GB isn't enough so I just burn stuff off to dvds when I don't need them. A ritual I perform every 2-3 months.

Ideally, I would add a 500/512GB SATA drive and be done with it but I'd rather not spend that much on an hdd right now. Got different hardware to expand first viz. another gig of ram, another LCD and a mx revolution. The latter 2 are future plans but the first one should come soon

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Originally posted by WaqasTariq
MTB: Intel D965RY

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Hope you mean DG965RY

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Originally posted by WaqasTariq
Ok first of all the first drive you have is 160Gb in 4 partitions, now are they all 'Primary'?

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