Partitions?
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
What OS and what format (FAT32, NTFS, etc...) did you have in the system?
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
I don't know of a compelling reason to partition it that way. Why not 15G and 15G? Modern filesystems (ie, not FAT16) have no trouble with a 30G partition. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
Mark Sanders wrote: Does it increase performance? No. Older versions of Windows allowed only 256 directories in the root directory, and this practice may be a holdover from those days. NTFS5.0 has no such limitations that I know of. Because so many programs install stuff on the root directory whether you want them to or not, I prefer to reserve the C: logical drive for Windows itself and all the garbage programs that don't allow an optional install point, then to install everything else on a different drive. This causes no performance hit that I've been able to detect, nor does it improve performance in any measurable way. It's just cleaner, and easier to restore if (when) a crash occurs. It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
For most workstations...the simple principal is to install an OS partition and a user partition. OS files stay on one, and user files on the other. Linux has been doing this for years. Perhaps some pc mfgrs are jumping on the bandwagon. Frank "Keyboard Error - Press F1 to Continue"
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I just got a new laptop and it came with a 30G hard drive that was partioned into 16G and 14G partions. I talked to a buddy of my in IT and he said that most of the new computers he gets in have partitioned hard drives. Does anybody know why a bunch of computer manufacturers would start partitioning hard drives at the factory? Does it increase performance? :confused: Mark Sanders sanderssolutions.com
They must feel it helps organize the drivespace for you. If it works fine, fine. As soon as it starts going flaky, slowing down, crashing, etc, first thing I'd do is repartition it into 1 partition and reinstall the software. BTW, we had a 6Gig drive arrive partitioned as 2+2+2Gig.:mad: Obviously they used FAT16.