Partition Layout
This is a discussion about Partition Layout in the Windows Hardware category; Hi Everyone. I'm curious how everyone is planning (or has) their partition layouts. I'm from the old NT camp where we always had 3 partitions. A small FAT partition for emergency repairs, an NTFS partition for OS and a third NTFS partition for data.
Hi Everyone.
I'm curious how everyone is planning (or has) their partition layouts. I'm from the old NT camp where we always had 3 partitions. A small FAT partition for emergency repairs, an NTFS partition for OS and a third NTFS partition for data. Well I did this on my 6GB drive and I always find myself with an ever shrinking OS partition and 50MB or so wasted for the small FAT drive.
Now that Win 2000 is coming out I'm going to get my self a nice big drive. Probably 13GB or 20GB so I'm re-thininking this layout stuff. With the new "repair console" there should be no need for the small FAT drive and I was just going to make one big NTFS drive.
Any words for or against?
I'm curious how everyone is planning (or has) their partition layouts. I'm from the old NT camp where we always had 3 partitions. A small FAT partition for emergency repairs, an NTFS partition for OS and a third NTFS partition for data. Well I did this on my 6GB drive and I always find myself with an ever shrinking OS partition and 50MB or so wasted for the small FAT drive.
Now that Win 2000 is coming out I'm going to get my self a nice big drive. Probably 13GB or 20GB so I'm re-thininking this layout stuff. With the new "repair console" there should be no need for the small FAT drive and I was just going to make one big NTFS drive.
Any words for or against?
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As long as you're not dual-booting, then go with a single, big NTFS partition.
While the one-for-OS, one-for-data can make some file organisation a bit easier, it significantly reduces your I/O speed, as the head has to traverse at least half the drive almost every access - especially when paging.
In terms of recovery, I always keep an old IDE ready-to-go with Win9x and the NTFS-driver - then if something goes seriously wrong, i can just slap that on the primary. If you want to spend the time, you can also make a bootable emergency ZIP...
While the one-for-OS, one-for-data can make some file organisation a bit easier, it significantly reduces your I/O speed, as the head has to traverse at least half the drive almost every access - especially when paging.
In terms of recovery, I always keep an old IDE ready-to-go with Win9x and the NTFS-driver - then if something goes seriously wrong, i can just slap that on the primary. If you want to spend the time, you can also make a bootable emergency ZIP...
