How do you manage your Hard Disks?

[guang]

I read this topic on another forum,I am quite interested in it,so I post it here.

Here is mine:
I have 2 HD,80gb and 120gb,4 partitions on 80 and 2 on 120,
4Gb--only windows,nothing else
10Gb--Programs
40Gb--Games
26Gb--System backup(Windows Ghost file)and softwares and others

on 120G
60Gb--media(movie and music etc)
60Gb--disk images

I like having multipal patitions,I can't live with only one patition on my HD.

 

[ebendl]

I like having multipal patitions,I can't live with only one patition on my HD.

I have 3 drives:

40GB - Windows and applications, including games (not so big a gamer anymore) - anything that can disappear in a format, actually.
80GB - Applications, disk-images, downloads, documents (stretching it a bit)
160GB - Multimedia

I used to follow the multiple partition thing as well, but ran into problems where the 'document'-drive was underused, so multimedia from the 'multimedia'-drive had to be copied over etc. Big pain in the ***, so stuck with original sizes.

 

[Darth Garth]

3 drives

C 120GB - Windows and Programs and Swap
D 160GB - Movies,iTunes, Games and the data for various programs
E 200GB - Mirror of Data and Steam (via SyncToy) and source code repositry and web and pdf archives (using FireFox Scrapbook).

 

[squirrel]

I have a laptop, so my primary hard disk is kinda small.

C: Windows (4GB)
D: Programs (1.5GB)
E: Music, downloads (31.5GB)
F: Movies, Series, etc. (160GB) - external

 

[Claymore]

300GB: one C: drive
200GB external drive: connected up only for backups.

 

[guang]

I have a laptop, so my primary hard disk is kinda small.

C: Windows (4GB)
D: Programs (1.5GB)
E: Music, downloads (31.5GB)
F: Movies, Series, etc. (160GB) - external

We have the same windows partition,haha.

 

[guang]

I have a laptop, so my primary hard disk is kinda small.

C: Windows (4GB)
D: Programs (1.5GB)
E: Music, downloads (31.5GB)
F: Movies, Series, etc. (160GB) - external

We have the same windows partition,haha.

When the windows has problems,then I can just use Ghost restore it back without backing up and losing anything.

 

[guang]

sorry for the double reply,the speed is sucking slow now

 

[Silent_Bob]

200 Gig: C: Windows and all the apz i install 50GB
D: Media 150GB
250 Gig: E: Games and more media

80 Gig: F: Use it as a dump/to sort drive (was given to me for no reason)

 

[Brawler]

160 GB sata (windoze, games, apps etc)
80 GB ide (mp3, images, movies, downloads)

about to buy another 160 GB sata, going to try RAID

 

[hj2k_x]

I read this topic on another forum,I am quite interested in it,so I post it here.

Here is mine:
I have 2 HD,80gb and 120gb,4 partitions on 80 and 2 on 120,
4Gb--only windows,nothing else
10Gb--Programs
40Gb--Games
26Gb--System backup(Windows Ghost file)and softwares and others

Do you find it makes much difference keeping one partition for windows and putting all the programs on another one? I have not taken it this far yet...

 

[|tera|]

I doubt it makes a difference hj2k_x , like the thread says, it only helps with managing your hard disk. Then you know drive E: has only windows on it. On windows 98 I had too much problems when using partitions and that put me off for life, running xp now, even a 200GB harddrive works fine for me without any partitions, folders and one main folder on my c: drive is enough to manage it.

 

[nGAGEd55]

The one great thing of keeping your windows and documents, media ect appart is when you format, then you dont have to backup the stuff on the other partition

 

[Claymore]

The one great thing of keeping your windows and documents, media ect appart is when you format, then you dont have to backup the stuff on the other partition

Hah. Whenever I've reinstalled operating systems, I have copied *everything* off somewhere safe, because I'm forever finding ini files, lost DLLs, font files, settings etc. in the Windows or Program Files folders. I like to keep all that backed-up stuff for a couple of weeks to make sure I've got everything.

 

[4cer]

I don't use partitions....

But straight i have
1X120
1X160
1X200
1X250
1X300

And in the dead bin

1X200
1X160
1X300

 

[guang]

I don't use partitions....

But straight i have
1X120
1X160
1X200
1X250
1X300

And in the dead bin

1X200
1X160
1X300

You are so cool