Hard drive partitioning on GS1

I have been reading up on the G1S extensively on this forum and i came across some threads that say it's better to have only one partition on the hard disk for vista machines. I ordered my G1S from GenTech and i don't know if they partition all hard drives that ship with the notebook or is vista loaded on a single partitioned hard drive.

1) What is the consensus from those of you who are running vista on hard drives with more than 1 partition? is it stable or should I re-install vista on a single partitioned hard drive using the restore disk that ships with the G1S.
2) is it easy to setup a wireless network using vista. I have DSL at home and i have a wireless router as well. my current notebook connects wirelessly and i was wondering if all i need to do is turn on the wireless function on the G1S and input my network password in order to connect to the internet or do i have to go through and re-install the software that came with my DSL on the G1S in order to access the internet. Sorry if this sounds like a really basic question but I am new to to all this and have very little experience in setting up wireless networks.

Thanks in advance for your responses

 

1) I run vista and I prefer my HD partitioned. Works for me.
2) Easy as pie. Turn on wireless, tell it which network to connect to, enter password and you're on the internet.

 

1) i ALWAYS ALWAYS have at least two partitions. D: for important stuff like documents and email.pst files, bookmarks, My documents etc etc. And i leave the c: to windows and all my installed programs. That way when no if, i ever have a problem, it only takes me a few moments to get things back to normal, and i can even use the 'recover to first partition only option'.

2) it is really easy on vista, easier than Xp. just have to know where to look And you never have to install the software... unless its drivers for the WNIC.


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1) I will be placing 3 Partitions on my new lappy Vista/XP/Ubuntu will speak later when I get my laptop though
2) The software thats usually sent with DSL is Generally bloatware I found the internet worked just as good with out it I had sprint DSL. And like Redzapper said just turn on your wireless and add configs and it should work

 

I second that.

Suggestion: 30-40 GB OS partition.
60% / 40% of the rest for other two partitions, or 50%/50% of the rest -- whichever you prefer.

Or just make one big one of the rest.

 

My G1S kept crashing with a blue screen, I couldn't even re-install Vista using the restore CDs. I formatted the drive and reinstalled Vista to one partition and I haven't had nay issues since. I would have liked to have had two partiitons for the reasons stated above. For now I'm going to stick with one partition but I'm thinking I'll be upgrading my hard drive to a 7200 rpm drive later on in the year and I might try splitting my hard drive into two partitions then. I'm hoping in bugs in Vista that may have been causing my issues will have been solved by then.

 

I've been running my G1S with the standard 80gb/80gb partition it came with - no problems whatsoever.

 

Vista's prefetch algorithm is lot different and advanced than XP. Having multiple parition always help increase seek and access times of hard disk spindles, better organization and easy recovery from serious crashes.
Vista learns your application usage habits with time.

 

Bold statement seems a bad thing rather than good.

Also, I do not understand the relationship between prefetch and partitioning. Prefetch should work just the same on any partition?

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I think he was saying partitioning helps pre-fetch work better because things are more well organised. I.e. if it is looking for system applications it only looks through 40GB instead of the full 160 or whatever.

 

Possibly. I would imagine the algorithm's performance is not linear in the size of the partition/harddrive, however.

 

Thanks Alex. That is exactly what i meant

When MBR is created for system partition i.e. your C drive/ and you create further logical partitions all these new sub sector allocation is associated with one Region on the disk. Same thing as running a Defragmenter on C and running it on a F drive that has jut installed applications its easier for your hard disk to find the associated DLLs.

 

I'm a total Vista noob. Can you install your games to one partition and your business apps to another?

 

Sure.

The only issue is, the games will probably not be kept when the OS is lost, even though they are installed on a separate partition, because they most likely depend on registry settings.

This might even be a good idea, to protect the games from interference with the OS files (fragmentation etc.)