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March 6th 06, 11:06 AM
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Partition external hard drive?
I just bought a 160 gig external hard drive that I plan on using to store
music and video files on. Would I want to and/or how should I partition this drive? Ken 
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March 7th 06, 12:12 AM
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Partition external hard drive?
"NapalmHeart" wrote in message ... I just bought a 160 gig external hard drive that I plan on using to store music and video files on. Would I want to and/or how should I partition this drive? Assuming you are using Win2k or XP you'd want to set the drive up as NTFS... unless you have any specific reason for doing otherwise... you might was well just make one large partition using the whole drive. (it will be approx 150 gigs)
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March 7th 06, 01:25 AM
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Partition external hard drive?
"philo" wrote in message ... "NapalmHeart" wrote in message ... I just bought a 160 gig external hard drive that I plan on using to store music and video files on. Would I want to and/or how should I partition this drive? Assuming you are using Win2k or XP you'd want to set the drive up as NTFS... unless you have any specific reason for doing otherwise... you might was well just make one large partition using the whole drive. (it will be approx 150 gigs) I am using XP. You have confirmed my feelings about how to set-up this drive. I'm far from expert, slightly above novice. Thanks, Ken
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March 7th 06, 10:41 PM
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Partition external hard drive?
Assuming you are using Win2k or XP you'd want to set the drive up as NTFS... unless you have any specific reason for doing otherwise... you might was well just make one large partition using the whole drive. (it will be approx 150 gigs) I am using XP. You have confirmed my feelings about how to set-up this drive. I'm far from expert, slightly above novice. In a few weeks you will be an expert!
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March 8th 06, 01:54 AM
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Partition external hard drive?
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 16:41:28 -0600, "philo"
wrote: Assuming you are using Win2k or XP you'd want to set the drive up as NTFS... unless you have any specific reason for doing otherwise... you might was well just make one large partition using the whole drive. (it will be approx 150 gigs) I am using XP. You have confirmed my feelings about how to set-up this drive. I'm far from expert, slightly above novice. In a few weeks you will be an expert! Many experts feel it's not a good idea to use the whole drive as one partition though... makes segregating files, backups, and general performance worse. Ideally one would at least constrain the OS partition, the size of which can depend on how many and the size of the apps but for XP, 15GB is often an good upper limit unless the user has a lot of games that *need* to be installed on the OS partition (most do not).
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March 8th 06, 11:23 AM
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Partition external hard drive?
Many experts feel it's not a good idea to use the whole drive as one partition though... makes segregating files, backups, and general performance worse. Ideally one would at least constrain the OS partition, the size of which can depend on how many and the size of the apps but for XP, 15GB is often an good upper limit unless the user has a lot of games that *need* to be installed on the OS partition (most do not). Note: the OP said *external* drive!
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March 8th 06, 06:33 PM
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Partition external hard drive?
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 05:23:28 -0600, "philo"
wrote: Many experts feel it's not a good idea to use the whole drive as one partition though... makes segregating files, backups, and general performance worse. Ideally one would at least constrain the OS partition, the size of which can depend on how many and the size of the apps but for XP, 15GB is often an good upper limit unless the user has a lot of games that *need* to be installed on the OS partition (most do not). Note: the OP said *external* drive! DOH!
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