14-10-2005, 12:00 AM
Hello all.
I am fixing to reformat my computer, something I do every six to eight months and was wondering if putting FS9 on a seperate hard drive
and in its own partition would have any benifits? If so, how much space should i designate for the partition?
Here's what I normally do. I have a 40 Gig drive as my primary, which is unpartitioned and holds just the OS(XP Home) I have a
second 160Gig drive that has three partitions, the first being the page file followed by a game partion, and finnaly a downloaded file
partition.
I have always felt that leaving the 40Gig drive unpartiotioned and solely used for the OS was a waste of space but I have heard that the
OS is better off this way.
So what do you all think. Should I make a FS partition? Could I be using all that wasted space on the primary drive and still reap the
benifits of having the OS by itself? Does the way I normally do things look suffieceint? Any advice will be appreciated and thanks in
advance.
I am fixing to reformat my computer, something I do every six to eight months and was wondering if putting FS9 on a seperate hard drive
and in its own partition would have any benifits? If so, how much space should i designate for the partition?
Here's what I normally do. I have a 40 Gig drive as my primary, which is unpartitioned and holds just the OS(XP Home) I have a
second 160Gig drive that has three partitions, the first being the page file followed by a game partion, and finnaly a downloaded file
partition.
I have always felt that leaving the 40Gig drive unpartiotioned and solely used for the OS was a waste of space but I have heard that the
OS is better off this way.
So what do you all think. Should I make a FS partition? Could I be using all that wasted space on the primary drive and still reap the
benifits of having the OS by itself? Does the way I normally do things look suffieceint? Any advice will be appreciated and thanks in
advance.