partioned drive and i hate it!

[jay406]

woo hoo! that was too easy lol now i can reformatt and make it one

[Dan]

Whatever you use or do when ya get rid of the partition(s) back up anything ya don't wanna lose. I prefer partitoning so I can keep the OS partition lean and mean and keep all data that I can off the OS partition. This way in the case of having to reformat the OS partition for any reason, the data that has to be movied or copied is at a minimum. It also makes it easy to back up important data.

Well said Jim, that is exactly how I like to set my partitions!

I just don't see any advantage to having a large HDD and not using partitions. I especially liked the nice setup program that came with my new HDD, makes partitions a breeze.

[katzdvd]

IMHO, partitions are the only way to go with todays' large hard drives. If you keep all your important data/video/audio editing on separate partitons, you don't have the worry of losing all that stuff in the case of os failure on the C: drive, or a virus that wipes out the system, etc.

All your data will be sitting on the other partitions, safe & sound!

regards, katz

[Chewy]

also don't forget how fast defrag of C goes without all that data, seen a few single partition hard drives that die trying to defrag.

[Dan]

Yep, that's a good point. I am amazed when I clean up a friends computer and defrag takes forever. Mine take about a minute each,lol.

[Chewy]

my daughter's boyfriend bought a used/abused laptop and they took it for
a 6 week trip thru chicago up to canada and then east and down thru Maine
this fall, she's got a great camera but only a 512 meg card, they had several gigs of high resolution jpeg's. After they got back he decided it might be time to defrag, the hard drive crashed. Luckily she knows a young IT professional who extracted almost all the data for them. The guy put a new hard drive in but didn't partition it, they reloaded it again.

[soup]

There might be a freeware version out there but this program is fast.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/O-O-Defrag-Server-Edition.shtml

[blutach]

What's defrag?

Regards

[Dialysis1]

This little tool is not bad also.
Power Defragmenter

[jay406]

lol......i hear ya's, no i cant read binary i'm just learnign all this stuff, ok so if i keep the partition how do i reformatt the C:drive without reformatting the lot is it possible because my computer is running like crap and doing strange things. I thought of scanning it in safe mode 1st .... any suggestions?

thanks
jay

[Dan]

If you are still going to reformat then start clean then decide what partions you want. I would dedicate 1 to your OS etc. like mentioned in this thread.

[katzdvd]

You could maybe get away with simply doing a system restore, instead of reformatting. It's worth a try.