How many drives/partitions do you have?

[David E. Gervais]

I'm talking about windows crashes, they are much more common than a true HD crash.

[DeadZone]

Kwok already had a hdd crash, thats how his SE:IV mod died

[spacerat]

i have to P drives...yea..i got a lot...


800 gb of 8 meg Cache space total
2 dvd writes
dvd ram
external cdwr
external HD

and some otehr stuff...

[DimmurWyrd]

hmmm, very simple system

a: floppy (does it still work?)
c: 200G HD - runtime files
d: 200G HD - backup and temporary storage.
e: DVDRW
f: virtual drive.

[Will]

I haven't gotten around to doing any partitioning yet... thus far, it is:

A: 3.5" floppy
C: 40GB HDD
D: CD-ROM
E: DVD+/-RW
F: SmartCard
G: CompactFlash

... B: would be reserved for the 5.25" floppy if I ever was insane enough to find a reason to search for and install one. I'm probably going to be getting an extra HDD or so in a few months, and possibly replace the 3.5" floppy with a ZIP (or hey, why not have both? Seems a bit of a waste to not use a FDD that has survived ten years and four different computers).

[Wardad]

A: 3.5" floppy
C: 5GB System Partition
D: 20GB Program and Data Partition
E: CD 72X Kenwood True X (reads 7 tracks at a time)
F: DVD Player
G: CDR Lite-On 48x

After 4 years Win98 crashed. I think my privacy program attacked my security program.
I took the advice of some members on this board and created a seperate partition for the operating system.
Now if I have to, I can reformat drive C: and reload windows, without losing my games and data on drive D:.

[ November 24, 2003, 18:46: Message edited by: Wardad ]

[dHay]

It depends on what you are using the system for.
(Says me with 50+ computers... )

Any CDROM, DVD, USB key, etc, can only take one letter, and it just depends on how many you want.

Partitioning up a HD can be questionable. Depends on your budget, IDE slots, etc.

Performance? One partition to the drive. Possibly multiple drives to the partition. (Can you say RAID?)
Experiment: Try copying a file from one drive letter to the other.
Results:
1. Two hard drives, very fast.
2. One hard drive, two partitions, much slower.

You get killed by the head seek from one partition to the other.

If you aren't backing up your data, you didn't want it anyway. Backup does not have to be a "backup" device. Could just be a second HD. Or CDR, DVDR, etc.
Disk drives are cheap enough now, that not backing up to another drive is, umm, not so smart.

Disk drives are cheap enough that tape drive manufacturers are in trouble. A 200G LTO tape drive costs more than 10 times the space in HDs.
Plus tapes.