On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:21:01 -0500, "Jimmy"
wrote:

HereWeGoYetAgain wrote:
I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year)
which I use with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had
about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy
when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow",
bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover
the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager
6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't
access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition
table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean
this thing?

Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I
have over a dozen drives and they all have one partition each. Each drive is
dedicated to separate files like video and music. Would I gain anything by
partitioning a 200G drive full of video files into multiple partitions as
opposed to folders?

As opposed to folders?...yes.

But, since you have separate, dedicated drives, you have just as good
a system.

Partitions/drives are better than folders when it comes to
maintenance. You don't need to defrag a dedicated partition/drive.
Also, accessing system/operating files is quicker when the drive isn't
also crowded with specific data (video, etc.) files.

Moreover, you can designate a specific cluster size for specific type
files when you have a dedicated partition/drive. I keep the clusters
for my regular operating files at 8k. But my multi-media partitions
are set to 32k...since the files going here are usually very
large...so there is little waste with a large cluster size for these
files.

I find 4k default clusters are usually too slow on most drives.


Have a nice one...

Trent©

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