Re: Partition Planning

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Hello Contrapositive,

Your welcome, just keep in mind that I'm sharing my thoughts and ideas
based on only my experiences. So use what your comfortable with and discard
the rest.

With regard to the 8MB (or is that 8GB) of "unpartitioned" or "unallocated"
space. This might be corrected by selecting "use all available space" when
creating the last partition, as apposed to entering the size you want.

If your already well on your way, it might be worth the trouble over 8GB.
But if it's 8MB, I believe I'd let it go.

Also...

If the last partition is an "extended partition" containing "logical
drives", then the last "logical drive" in the partition you'll want to use
"all available space". It may be worded alittle differently tho.

And yea... the D:\ drive is likely assigned to a removable (CD/DVD) drive.

In the past, when installing a OS onto a new HD. I will boot to the OS
install disc, allow it to create the first partition to a size of my liking
and install the OS there. Then, with the OS up and running and all is well,
I'll open the XP "Disk Management" utility and use it to bump the drive
letter for the CD/DVD drive to something like T:\ or whatever. Just to get
it away from my hard drives. Reboot... just for the fun of it, reopen "Disk
Management" and create the other partitions for the "unallocated" space that
remains after C:\. The XP utility is pretty easy on the eyes and you can
see all your drives to better know what's going on.

Start>Programs>Administrative Tools>Computer Management... Then look for
"Disk Management".
(Maybe stick with NTFS and the default cluster size)

I don't think fdisk will work with the NTFS file system (?). And fdisk has
difficulty with large hard drives, unless you've downloaded the fdisk
"patch" or whatever it was to help with large drive capacities. I still
have fdisk too, but I leave it on a floppy buried away somewhere.

So, stick with the XP utility, it's really quite nice. Maximize the window
and drag the screen divider up so you can see ALL the drives in the lower
pane. I think it's right-click on the drive to work on it or just reassign
drive letters.

If your going to rework the last partition to salvage the 8MB (8GB ?), you
could consider "Fast Format" to save some time. Most folks probably use the
fast (quick) format anyway....

When done, you can bump the CD drive letter back up in line behind the hard
drives. You can also label your drive here too!

Good luck!

Richard In Va.
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Hello Contrapositive,

Looks like you've gotten some good advice here already.

This is all great advice. Thanks so much To answer some other questions, I
have 2GB of RAM, and an AMD Athlon 64 3000+.

Anyway, now that I'm ready to create my partitions, I notice that XP skips
over the D designation for drive lettering -- i.e. it goes from C to E.
Also, as I add partitions, a single partition of 8MB of "unpartitioned
space" shows up at the end.

Is this all because I'm using the XP disk to create partitions? Should I
use fdisk instead?





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