I'm thinking about partitioning the harddrive on my laptop. I just want
to make it easy to reinstall windows whenever I want to. Are there cons
to doing this, like reduced speed and performance? Or should I just
burn all of the important things and keep the drive as is.

Thanks

kurtcohen@gmail.com wrote:

OS and programs, NTFS preferred, then a 2nd partition for "My Files" to
redirect: rightclick on the icon or menu entry, enter destination "D:" or
whatever once you have partitioned and your existing data will
automagically be moved over. That way even after reformatting and
reinstalling windows on C: you don't lose your files. Depending on your
needs and concerns about availability and privacy, you may have it FAT32
formatted (max 32 GB) for best availability from even a bootfloppy, or
NTFS, even encrypted, for best security/privacy. Don't forget to export the
key to a floppy and store it in a safe place.
The remainder, if any, can go as a NTFS partition for multimedia files or
whatever. Also keep some unpartitioned space (20 GB) if you want to try
out linux later on. Remember, you can ntfs-format and "mount" it as a
folder into your existing windows partition.
You don't want a separate swap partition if you only have one harddrive, but
you may set it to a fixed size to prohibit fragmentation.

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On 26 Dec 2005 08:51:58 -0800 If you fall from a tree,leave your anger
on the branch and then kurtcohen@gmail.com sent this :

IMHO there are no disadvantages to doing this.I run a dual boot system
and limit my main C partition to a small 2 gig which contains my
Win98SE and my D partition winXP pro and another partition for
downloads.

To keep my C drive from filling up I always choose a custom install of
programs and install them on my own folder on my 3rd partition.
This also means I can use a drive image program to very quickly save
my 2 gig image onto CDr and also on my hard drive/s/partitions
anywhere I want(re-install time less than 5 mins).This means I always
have a bootable system to re-install fast.

WinXP being a bigger basic install than winXP I would probably use 3
gig as a primary partition but still install my programs onto the
other partition/s/drives.

Noterive image programs also compress the image so for example if my
C driver had around a gig of data it would still fit on one CDR/W disk
and with DVD/R/W you can get more so you have quite a lot of options.

As for speed loss.Nothing that anyone would notice unless,"Anoraking"
benchmarks.

HTH





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kurtcohen@gmail.com wrote:
Make it 50/50

Put the things that dont need defragging on the second partition.



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