Re: Partitioning Question

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From: drake (drake48_at_nospamukonline.co.uk)
Date: 03/09/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 08:50:32 -0500

Thanks to all of you for your input.
Drake
"CS" <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:04:55 -0500, "drake"
> <drake48@nospamukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >I have just purchased a new computer that has no partitions...it is
> >160GB..are there any disadvantages to partitioning?
> >Thanks,
> >Drake
> >
>
> Unless you intend to do video editing and mastering, I would certainly
> consider partitioning that drive into at least two or three
> partitions. One for the OS, one for application data, and finally a
> partition for storing backups or images. But you can use any scheme
> desired.
>
> Hopefully the drive came formatted as NTFS. I can't imagine a drive
> that large using FAT-32.