----- Original Message -----
From: "Tiago Alexandre Teixeira de Miranda" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: Why would one want to partition a hard drive?


>         You can always use a program like Partition Magic to "dinamicly"
> resize your partitions. So if you need to enlarge one, just reduce the
> other. it's very easy to do.
>
>         hope it helped, Tiago Miranda



Good point :). But I still prefer one large partition. I am using Win ME
with a 30 gig hard drive and I am the only user of my computer.

Some of the list subscribers have said that partitioning a hard drive is
good because it allows you to store user data files on a different
partition(secondary) from the one holding your OS(primary). The argument is
that if your OS "fails" or becomes unstable reformatting and reinstalling is
easy because your documents can easily be copied from your secondary
partition. But what I want to point out is, if your computer becomes
unstable is it not easier to use system restore?

Abdul Samad
Sri Lanka


>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Abdul Samad Abdul Razzak wrote:
>
> > The downside to partitioning a hard drive is that you may actually be
> > wasting space and it may cause problems in the future. For example
consider
> > the following scenario. Say you have a
> > 10gb hard drive consisting of two 5gb partitions with 500 Mb  free space
on
> > each partition. That is a total of 1000 Mb  free space on the entire
hard
> > drive. Suppose you want to install a game that takes up 650mb.How do you
do
> > it? The only way you can is to juggle 150MB worth of  files from one
> > partition to
> > another. If that is not possible you can't install the game. That
is,even
> > with 1000 MB  free space on your entire hard drive you can't install a
650
> > MB game. If that is not a wastage of space I don't know what is.
> >
> > So you see partitioning your hard drive may cause problems in the future
> > because regardless of whether you have a 10gig , 30gig or a 100gig hard
> > drive it will (eventually) fill up. Hence I think it is better to have
just
> > one huge partition covering your entire hard drive.
> >
> > If organising files is your only aim, using directories is a better
choice.
> >
> > Abdul Samad Abdul Razzak
> > Sri Lanka
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "William Closure" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 7:53 AM
> > Subject: Why would one want to partition a hard drive?
> >
> >
> > > I have read about people partitioning hard drives, and I'm trying to
> > > understand the benefits, as well as the down side.  On the upside,
> > separate
> > > partitions could be made for each person who uses the computer, thus
> > > isolating that person's files (although it would be just as easy to
create
> > > directories for each person.)  And, likewise, those isolated files
could
> > be
> > > more easily deleted, copied, etc..  And, I guess you could defrag each
> > drive
> > > individually.  But, does it do anything to improve day to day
operations?
> > > And, what are the downsides?  Any tutorials out there about the pros
and
> > cons?
> > >
> > > William Closure

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