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    Hard Drive Partitioning...how do you do yours?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by md02geist, Apr 27, 2008.

  1. md02geist

    md02geist Notebook Consultant

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    Just like the topic says...what size hard drive do you have, and how have you partitioned it?

    Just curious what everyone around here is doing! :)
     
    md02geist, Apr 27, 2008
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    alynch75 Notebook Evangelist

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    great question.. I have a dell xps m1330 and just got a 320gb hard drive. I have not installed due to me not really knowing how to partition this baby up
     
    alynch75, Apr 27, 2008
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    ACHlLLES Notebook Virtuoso

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    320 GB HD

    40 for vista OS

    125 for downloads, and back up.

    130 for programs, and games.
     
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    120 gb, fujitsu, 5400 rpm

    2 gb = swap file (made by mistake)
    14.6 gb = windows (it's d:\, duh)
    14.6 gb = programs and games
    39 gb = music
    41.4 = documents and others
     
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    wuzertheloser Notebook Deity

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    120gb hdd
    20gb Vista OS
    10gb Music
    30gb Movies
    60gb Programs and Documents

    500gb external
    300gb movies
    100gb music
    100gb backups
     
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    35GB - Vista and Programs
    10GB - Documents
    100GB - Multimedia
    120GB - Games
    Approx 120GB unallocated for future use.

    Once I get my M1330, I will probably partition up very similar sizes to the above.
     
    ifti, Apr 27, 2008
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    pezzodicento Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have 200Gb

    60Gb vista and programs
    124Gb docs

    How do you put your programs in a partition other than C:?
     
    pezzodicento, Apr 27, 2008
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  8. BruZZi

    BruZZi Notebook Guru

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    160GB


    50GB = Vista & Programs
    110GB = Music, Movies, etc.


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    BruZZi, Apr 27, 2008
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  9. disciplined

    disciplined Notebook Geek

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    200 GB

    50 GB XP + Program Files + Games
    100 GB Movies + Documents
    50 GB Lunix (swap + ext3 +ext2)

    you can move the mydocuments folder/firefox settings folder
    also when you install stuff you can choose which partition to install during setup but keep in mind if you format the OS partition then all of those programs will be "severed" and unusable. You could back up the regestry, but when you restore it you will get all the junk you tried to get rid of when you formatted.
     
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    Only one but I have a 500 gb ext that holds all the movies music etc...so I keep this one pretty clean...I run it off my desktop via wireless and hook the hdmi up and it works awesome...
     
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    md02geist Notebook Consultant

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    I have a 160gb Hard drive..I have 100 for the OS and various Games, 50 for multimedia and stuff, and the rest for like Media Direct etc.
     
    md02geist, Apr 27, 2008
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    320GB (298GB after format)

    46GB - OS & Programs
    252GB - Data
     
    alexnvidia, Apr 27, 2008
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