Should I partition my drives....

cwsiggy · #1 09-21-2005, 12:28 PM

I have a pretty fast system with a 160GB external hardrive for my music. Eventually it will be part of a high end PC audio sytem. Do I need to partition the external drive if it holds nothing but music. Should I partition my internals if they also hold music and the OS? How difficult is it to partition? I am running XP

thanks.

#2 09-21-2005, 01:05 PM

I don't see any reason to partition the external drive if it's only going to have music on it. I always partition my physical drive that has the OS on it however. I keep only the OS on one partition, and everything else on the other.

You should look into getting Partition Magic - heck of a program that makes this task easy, and it's well worth the price.

jnalpak · #3 09-21-2005, 09:13 PM

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I don't see any reason to partition the external drive if it's only going to have music on it. I always partition my physical drive that has the OS on it however. I keep only the OS on one partition, and everything else on the other.

You should look into getting Partition Magic - heck of a program that makes this task easy, and it's well worth the price.

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on a side note, if its possible i would create about 2-4GB of allocated space for virtual memory on the primary disk.

cwsiggy · #4 09-21-2005, 11:36 PM

thanks