another question about harddrives !!

**mike2020learnin** · 12-11-2007, 10:02 AM

hello TSF Team ,

i have a few questions about my sons pc & harddrives

i had to go out of town for awhile and while i was gone my son added a secound hardrive to his pc !!

#1 he wanted to partition both of the drives like this
the 80 gig (master) Hitachi
partition #1 operating system
partition #2 programs
partition #3 created files & school work
the 40 gig ( slave )Maxtor fireball
partition #4 music / pics / videos
partition #5 saved games / back ups
partition #6 page file / virtual memory

he installed the drive correctly thru the drive manager but he is just useing the send to ( new vol (d) ) so i see this as just useing the 40gig as backing up the 80gig with this techn. ? , for i have set up drives this way to be able to store system backups for my clients

wehave tried to use partition magic & gparted but can not get either if the disk to load at start up for some reason , i have created / burned the disks several times (extra copies of each now ) but they won't load

his pc is the same as mine but compleatly stock with an upgrade to the psu

any advice on this would be greatful or a link to be able to do this

thanks guys & gals

Mike

**twajetmech** · 12-12-2007, 02:31 AM

An 80Gb and 40Gb hdd's are not a lot of space to do what you propose. the OS partition for XP should be no less than 30Gb alone, since updates and many software titles prefer to be loaded on the OS partition. You could split the 80Gb hdd in two at best imho. Backups take up a lot of space, especially if you intend to save music, pics, videos etc the page file will most likely consume 1.5-2Gb of hdd space by itself (typicall page file is 1.5 X total memory) You'll not have a lot of space left to do much in a very short time. If you can I'd go for a much larger hdd (500Gb) use the 40Gb drive for the OS, the 80Gb for back ups and page file and the 500Gb for storage.....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136178

**mike2020learnin** · 12-12-2007, 02:38 AM

hello TWA,

well my son jumped the gun and i have a 500 gig seagate coming for Christmas and planed to use the 80 gig for the software

but now i have something to show him so that he see's that i know what i am talking about !!

he is taking course's in school & after on pc repair and know more then i do so he says , i have been trying to get him to be part of the TSF community so he can learn more then just the basic's

thank you very much

Mike

**twajetmech** · 12-12-2007, 02:41 AM

Your welcome ! We look fwd to seeing both of you here on the TSF.

12-11-2007, 10:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
mike2020learnin Mentor, Microsoft Support Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Michigan , I donated so can you Posts: 3,331 OS: Windows XP Home & Pro. Sp3 / both compleatly updated My System	another question about harddrives !! hello TSF Team , i have a few questions about my sons pc & harddrives i had to go out of town for awhile and while i was gone my son added a secound hardrive to his pc !! #1 he wanted to partition both of the drives like this the 80 gig (master) Hitachi partition #1 operating system partition #2 programs partition #3 created files & school work the 40 gig ( slave )Maxtor fireball partition #4 music / pics / videos partition #5 saved games / back ups partition #6 page file / virtual memory he installed the drive correctly thru the drive manager but he is just useing the send to ( new vol (d) ) so i see this as just useing the 40gig as backing up the 80gig with this techn. ? , for i have set up drives this way to be able to store system backups for my clients wehave tried to use partition magic & gparted but can not get either if the disk to load at start up for some reason , i have created / burned the disks several times (extra copies of each now ) but they won't load his pc is the same as mine but compleatly stock with an upgrade to the psu any advice on this would be greatful or a link to be able to do this thanks guys & gals Mike __________________ Mike, I will stick with you till the issue is resolve !! Please help the TSF site by donating How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Vista How to back up and restore the registry in Windows 98/ ME / NT 4.0 / 2000

12-12-2007, 02:31 AM	#2 (permalink)
twajetmech I helped the forums. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: LGA, NYC Posts: 2,388 OS: XP-Pro Sp2 & XP-Pro Sp2 Tablet Edition, Vista Ultimate My System	Re: another question about harddrives !! An 80Gb and 40Gb hdd's are not a lot of space to do what you propose. the OS partition for XP should be no less than 30Gb alone, since updates and many software titles prefer to be loaded on the OS partition. You could split the 80Gb hdd in two at best imho. Backups take up a lot of space, especially if you intend to save music, pics, videos etc the page file will most likely consume 1.5-2Gb of hdd space by itself (typicall page file is 1.5 X total memory) You'll not have a lot of space left to do much in a very short time. If you can I'd go for a much larger hdd (500Gb) use the 40Gb drive for the OS, the 80Gb for back ups and page file and the 500Gb for storage.....http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136178 __________________ PSU Selection/Info // Bench test // Thermal Paste // Memory Selection // Bios Beep Codes // CPU-Z// Posting System Specs

12-12-2007, 02:38 AM	#3 (permalink)
mike2020learnin Mentor, Microsoft Support Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Michigan , I donated so can you Posts: 3,331 OS: Windows XP Home & Pro. Sp3 / both compleatly updated My System	Re: another question about harddrives !! hello TWA, well my son jumped the gun and i have a 500 gig seagate coming for Christmas and planed to use the 80 gig for the software but now i have something to show him so that he see's that i know what i am talking about !! he is taking course's in school & after on pc repair and know more then i do so he says , i have been trying to get him to be part of the TSF community so he can learn more then just the basic's thank you very much Mike __________________ Mike, I will stick with you till the issue is resolve !! Please help the TSF site by donating How to back up and restore the registry in Windows XP and Windows Vista How to back up and restore the registry in Windows 98/ ME / NT 4.0 / 2000

12-12-2007, 02:41 AM	#4 (permalink)
twajetmech I helped the forums. Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: LGA, NYC Posts: 2,388 OS: XP-Pro Sp2 & XP-Pro Sp2 Tablet Edition, Vista Ultimate My System	Re: another question about harddrives !! Your welcome ! We look fwd to seeing both of you here on the TSF. __________________ PSU Selection/Info // Bench test // Thermal Paste // Memory Selection // Bios Beep Codes // CPU-Z// Posting System Specs