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is setting the partition really necessary? I am running the same hard drive on my old MK1 600mhz. and besides just showing 137 in the bios, it shows up at the full capacity in windows. 149 gis or so if I am correct.

Rick

 

I don't like taking chances
I recommend partitioning

Alex

 

Actually, PATA is a little closer to the correct technical term. If you go out to the T13.org web site. (T13 is the standards organization for "PATA/IDE"), you'll notice the standards are referred to as ATA-n. the P was added after SATA came along to distinguish more clearly between the two, but the original interface is named in the standards as ATA. I'm not sure that the IDE acronym is used anywhere in the official descriptions of the interface. Not that this matters very much, of course, in everyday discussions.

 

Maybe I'm just lucky. I have never set the partition on 4 different hard drives on that MK1 all over 137 gigs (all 160 gigs, I never tried the 300 gigers). Oh and speaking of lucky, I put in one of those hard drives into the a CF-29 I just got. It still had the windows installation for the MK1, I was going to nuke it and install a fresh copy of windows on the 29. Well damn if the thing didn't boot into Windows and just found some hardware and ran fine. I didn't test it out fully because I still wiped and did a fresh install, but I played around with for about 20 mins and no problems. Maybe after a few day problems would have arisen, but still pretty amazing.

 

Sometimes.... Luck smiles upon you.... Sometimes it's the BSOD....

 

That happened to me recently with a CF-28, put it in the wrong toughbook and it booted up fine and installed the new hardware. Had me wondering for a moment, cause I had nothing externally hooked up to the unit at all! lol

 

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On the subject of partitions, I know that some folks like to avoid extra ones like the plague, but the truth is that most times your PC will be faster and more efficient with a few. I usually have 3 to 4 on a big drive.

One for the OS and software! (This way you only have to defrag a much smaller area on the drive and if you have to reload the OS your data can sit on its own partition, unmolested)

Second for a Static Swap File (so my OS and data does not get shuffled around so much and less CPU cycles are utilized then to manage the dynamic partition)

Third (and Largest) for my Data. (This whole partition is the "MY DOCUMENTS" folder that has been redirected. )

and sometimes a Forth that is used to store a Restore Image for Ghost or Acronis.

You might even what to make this one a second Boot Partition for another OS or even add a 5th!