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2nd gen noob
06-23-2003, 03:27 AM
I downloaded partition magic 8 earlier today, and have already made two logical partitions, each 9GB, on my 80GB Seagate 7200rpm hdd.
my question is really in the title - is it bad for my hard drive to add more partitions?
will it do any damage to the disc if i add another partition or two?

in case anyone needs this to diagnose my problem, i'm using windows xp (ntfs file system). i have an athlon 2700+ with 512MB ram.

thanks for any replies or advice :)


whoopsy, got the title slightly wrong... :(

adamp2p
06-23-2003, 03:32 AM
I think I am gonna flame ya for the title, got nuthun better to do :rolleyes: :huh: ;) :blink: :ph34r:

Yeah, I tried the partitioning thing, but found that Partition Magic was a pain in the a**. I figure that multibooting a disk was, can I say, unnatural?

My opinion here; with the price of HDDs as cheap as they are today, the whole sketchy multiboot kinda confuses me more than it is worth the hassle...

I know I am not really answering your question, lol, 2nd gen; if I were you I would buy a cheap HDD for whatever your purpose...

What do you wanna do anyway? Install Longhorn? Create a partition for the page file? Let us know.

Your buddy ;)

2nd gen noob
06-23-2003, 03:35 AM
Originally posted by adamp2p@23 June 2003 - 04:32
I think I am gonna flame ya for the title, got nuthun better to do :rolleyes: :huh: ;) :blink: :ph34r:
carry on...though i blame the mistake on flood control.....even when the board isn't busy...erm...

(footsteps recede into distance, car door opens, closes, engine revs and tyres screech)

:P

2nd gen noob
06-23-2003, 03:45 AM
Originally posted by adamp2p@23 June 2003 - 04:32
I think I am gonna flame ya for the title, got nuthun better to do :rolleyes: :huh: ;) :blink: :ph34r:

Yeah, I tried the partitioning thing, but found that Partition Magic was a pain in the a**. I figure that multibooting a disk was, can I say, unnatural?

My opinion here; with the price of HDDs as cheap as they are today, the whole sketchy multiboot kinda confuses me more than it is worth the hassle...

I know I am not really answering your question, lol, 2nd gen; if I were you I would buy a cheap HDD for whatever your purpose...

What do you wanna do anyway? Install Longhorn? Create a partition for the page file? Let us know.

Your buddy ;)
i forgot to add in why i wanted to do it. sorry.

the reason i'm adding more partitions (correct spelling (woohoo :) )) is simply so that i can move my music and videos from my c drive to other partitions.
i'm only doing this to cut down the time it takes to scan my c drive for viruses or to defragment it.
when i had 50 gig on my c drive, it was taking about 2 hours to scan with norton corp and about an hour or so to defrag with perfectdisk or speeddisk.

Somebody1234
06-23-2003, 03:53 AM
Partitioning you harddisk in no way damages it. Go ahead, make the partitions you need to manage your data and your system the way you like. :)

adamp2p
06-23-2003, 03:59 AM
I have never heard of that, funny...the only time I have ever heard of creating multiple partitions on a single disk would be to, like I said, run another OS or create one for page file (which I always thought sounded kinda dumb because using the same disk for page file would actually make a single disk do double work to go report to different partitions simultaneously...when it makes more sense to get another disk altogether so the read write head of a HDD could be devoted to ONLY page file...)

So that is interesting. I never thought of doing that. Are you saying that a virus could not spread to another partition? I think that it could.

I personally think that the effort required to partition is vastly more costly than buying a new disk altogether...just my opinion buddy <_< ;)

Sorry for repeating mee self m8 :(

Explain the advantages. I am interested...

2nd gen noob
06-23-2003, 03:59 AM
Originally posted by Somebody1234@23 June 2003 - 04:53
Partitioning you harddisk in no way damages it. Go ahead, make the partitions you need to manage your data and your system the way you like. :)
ok, thanks a lot.
nice to have a little peace of mind when messing about with hardware :)

2nd gen noob
06-23-2003, 04:06 AM
Originally posted by adamp2p@23 June 2003 - 04:59
I have never heard of that, funny...the only time I have ever heard of creating multiple partitions on a single disk would be to, like I said, run another OS or create one for page file (which I always thought sounded kinda dumb because using the same disk for page file would actually make a single disk do double work to go report to different partitions simultaneously...when it makes more sense to get another disk altogether so the read write head of a HDD could be devoted to ONLY page file...)

So that is interesting. I never thought of doing that. Are you saying that a virus could not spread to another partition? I think that it could.

I personally think that the effort required to partition is vastly more costly than buying a new disk altogether...just my opinion buddy <_< ;)

Sorry for repeating mee self m8 :(

Explain the advantages. I am interested...
well, basically the time taken currently to defrag or virus scan my computer is prohibitively long (as i said in last post).

my logic was going along the lines that if i could remove most of my media from my c drive and only leave essential programs and some games, i could get the times back down to something reasonable (approx 20 mins or so).

i know that it&#39;s possible for a virus to migrate to another partition, however, if i only want to scan one partition (of approx 10-15 gig), then the time taken should be much less than scanning the whole thing at once. also, i can still scan the other partitions (obviously), but the time taken to scan/defrag a 9 gig partition should be very low.

a second thought while i&#39;m writing this was that maybe the disc performance of a smaller partition would be higher than a large partition, however, i have no basis for that at all.

might go back to pc pitstop and see.

also, on buying a new disc, i think i&#39;m gonna buy another 80 or 120 gig drive when i get broadband, but that&#39;s dependent on the funds (being a student, i&#39;m rather tight :( )

balamm*
06-23-2003, 05:17 AM
You can have as many partitions on one disk as you have room for or as long as the total system partitions don&#39;t exeed the alphabet ( a to z ) It&#39;s not much more than a set of folders managed a bit more tightly by the system itself. There are some limitations on the number and format of primary and logical partitions depending on the OS&#39;s you install. Smaller partitions mean faster defrags and less OS resources used to manage unused files or archives.

vivitron 15
06-23-2003, 10:30 AM
To add to the "why do it" it is also a really good way to keep track of how much you are storing...when you get to the point of being full, you can just look and see, at a glance, that you have 50GB of porn movies (cos they&#39;re on P:) and that, maybe you could delete some to free up space, instead of adding a new drive.