Hi I just bought myself a 80GB firewire hard drive, can I make two partions one for my files and such and one partion to boot into?
2006-07-12 16:18:09 · 5 answers · asked by abc123 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Partitioning is never useless. It's completely impossible to even use a hard drive, without partitioning it. Now, whether or not you should put more than one partition on each hard drive is a different story. I personally do, on very large drives. It just makes more sense, especially for the drive that has the C:\ partition on it. If/when you need to reload Windows, you can just reformat the C:\ partition, and leave all of your other data completely untouched, which is nice.
Now, there's a very good chance you won't be able to boot from your Firewire drive. If you have a pre-built computer, there's almost a 100% chance you won't be able to boot from anything except an IDE or SATA drive. Why are you wanting to boot from your Firewire drive, anyway? Has your IDE drive failed? If so, faster, larger IDE drives are CHEAP these days. Like a Seagate 200GB 7,200 rpm drive for well under $100, and 500GB drives for less than $200.
2006-07-12 16:42:20 · answer #1 · answered by alchemist_n_tx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alchemist_n_tx It's completely impossible to even use a hard drive, without partitioning it. You r wrong in saying that. One can use 120GB hard-drive without using partitioning.
But it is good Idea to partition the Drive. Reason for this is:
1 It will be lot faster to boot up
2 It will be lot faster to find and retrieve the software
3 Your Drive will be lot fater
2006-07-12 23:46:22 · answer #2 · answered by Joe_Young 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
partitioning is a great idea install winxp on c:16 Gb should do. programs and storage on d:quicker when you defrag system
also better when your system needs reinstall
yes you can acronis partition expert will do nicely
you can also do this as you install winxp but read each screen as you go needs finishing off with admin tools.
acronis is easy dictate what size and follow onscreen instructions
2006-07-18 03:36:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
partioninting is useless most of the time
and waste of time
but be my guest sure u can:)
yah like i said seens u wont even be able to boot from firewire
usleess
onemore reason
2006-07-12 16:21:43 · answer #4 · answered by NeO Anderson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use partition magic...a partition software...
2006-07-12 16:37:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋