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    Any problems with this partition setup?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by JohnnyFlash, May 22, 2009.

  1. JohnnyFlash

    JohnnyFlash Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm going to try something different when my 5K500.B's get here next week.

    I want to partition the first 80GB of each drive for programs, and the rest for storage.

    The first drive's main will have: Vista install, games, most apps (Office, etc)
    The second drive's main will have: All the programs that load at start up, bit torrent, winamp, dragon speaking, and my documents.

    Any noticeable flaws here?
     
    JohnnyFlash, May 22, 2009
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    spam123 Notebook Consultant

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    i have a dedicated OS drive, an apps drive, a games drive, a scrub/temp, and a data drive.
    that's probably splitting it too fine - but at the very minimum IMHO the data (ie My Documents) should be kept on a separate drive.
     
    spam123, May 22, 2009
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    In your case I would suggest you make 4 partitions (2 partitions on each drive).

    1partition for your OS, 1 partition for your programs on your secondary drive, and 2 data partitions on seperate hdds.

    Name your OS partition C and format it in NTFS. Format your programs partition to NTFS as well, but don't create a drive letter for it. Instead, mount the partition inside C as a folder called "Program Files". Then you can use one partition for general data and mount the other data partition inside the first partition for torrent storage.

    In the 2nd, you have 2 "partitions" visible in my computer.
     
    jackluo923, May 22, 2009
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    JohnnyFlash Notebook Virtuoso

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    I like this idea, I am going to have four partitions. My main goal is to keep things that would usually operate at the same time on different drives. Having my anti-virus, and other start up programs on the second drive should jump up my start up times, and letting a program like dragon have it's own drive (bittorrent off while running) would give it a good boost too.
     
    JohnnyFlash, May 22, 2009
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