Re: Partitioning new harddrives
- From: D.B. <DB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:46:01 -0700
Hi Phil.
I too have always been of the assumption of keeping the harddrives on the
same channel and the slower, burners on their own,seperate channel but during
my research, I came across an article by one of the MVP's,)can't remember
which one), who advised the harddrive/burner on the primary and
harddrive/burner on the secondary channel scenereo. Something about both
harddrives being designated as master would facilitate faster read/write and
access times.
I will,as soon as finances allow,look into "Partition Magic" or it's
equivalent.
Thanks again for your response.
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As always thanks for any and all responses.
"Phil Sharpe" wrote:
I've always stuck with the rule "Don't mix hard disks & optical drives on.
the same IDE channel".
I always put the HDDs on IDE 0 and CD/DVD drives on IDE 1.
Moving the swap file to the slave drive will probably give you a small
performance boost
(or moving it to a different partition on the master will, I guess, negate
some fragmentation issues).
Can't tell you how big to make your partitions - depends on stuff like:
where you put the swap file
where you install your applications
if you move "My Documents" etc to another partition
but I'd definately recommend installing a copy of Partition Magic (or
similar)
so that you can adjust your partition sizes when you need to.
[I could be mistaken about any/all of the above ;)]
"D.B." <DB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Four weeks ago, my computer went stupid on me.
My daughter was playing her educational game and it started rebooting. I
did
all of the requisite spyware/adware,virus scans ad-nauseaum. Finally, I
did a
repair install of XP and I thought it solved the problem but noticed other
strange goings on such as all of my drive letters have changed and I
started
getting disk errors.
I ran chkdsk and it found some problems on my H drive.
( c drive is my original 20 GB system drive, D drive is one of my DVD
burners , E drive is the other DVD burner. F,G and H are three
seperate,equal
partitions on a 120 GB harddrive).
Dskchk locked up at 54% of phase 5 on H drive requiring a hard shutdown. I
left it run for hours with no change.
I have since bought 2 new 100 Gb hard drives and want to replace both the
20
and 120 Gb drives with these.
I have read just about everything I could find on the most efficient
partitioning scheme's and discovered there is no clear concensus.
I want to do this right the first time so:
1) Do I place one of the new drives as master on the primary ide cable and
the second as slave (That's my current configuration).. or should I put
one
harddrive as master and one burner as slave on the primary and again the
same
setup on the secondary ide channel?
I have seen arguments for both.
2) Should I leave the page file on C or make a 4 GB,Fat 32 partition on
the
second harddrive as the page file ?
Once again I have found varying oppinions.
3) I'm not sure but I dont know if it's a good idea to leave the C drive
at
a 100 GB's but I'm not sure of the best overall partitioning sizes.
4) I'm thinking of making seperate partitions on the second harddrive for
pictures/downloads/video's/data/music but once again don't know the best
sollution.
I'm going to try and transfer old C to new C with the new drives included
software. If it don't work I'll just wipe and reinstall everything but on
a
dial up network I really don't want to do this.
The computer is running XP home with 2 accounts, mine and my wifes. We use
it mainly for home schooling our 5 year old daughter and E-mail. I use it
mainly for trying to teach myself about computers and have basically
rebuilt
it from the ground up except for the processor. We do a little bit with
pictures and making videos. It is a 5 year old Dimmension 4400, 1.7 Ghz.
P/4,
ATI Radeon 7000 64 Mb video card, sound blaster audigy MP3+ card, 1GB of
ram,
I have added usb 2, midi and firewire ports. At present, we can't afford a
new machine and this one is more than adequate for our needs.....except
for
the dial up network.
Thank you for any and all responses.
D.B.
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