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Configure Hard Drive ?
Macbeast - 11/7/08 at 08:13 AM

My new computer has 160Gb hard drive which seems to be partitioned into C and D drives. Everything so far has gone onto C drive (Vista plus Office 40Gb and counting :O )

What's the best way to use these? Drag all documents and pictures etc to the D drive ?

I hate Vista btw - how that was supposed to be an improvement beats me

madmandegge - 11/7/08 at 08:24 AM

I don't think it'll make too much of a difference, if it's one drive into two partitions moving stuff won't give any speed benefit.

Don't see any reason why you can't use D: though, just keep a backup

Macbeast - 11/7/08 at 08:26 AM

So it'll just overflow automatically into the D drive when C is full ?

Both C and D are 80 Gb btw

Humbug - 11/7/08 at 08:37 AM

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Originally posted by Macbeast
So it'll just overflow automatically into the D drive when C is full ?

Both C and D are 80 Gb btw


No, it won't automatically overflow. If you fill up one logical drive (C or D) it will just think it is full - you will have to move stuff from one to the other, or install new stuff in a different place... or adjust the partition sizes, which is more complicated and risky unless you have somewhere you can copy all your data to temporarily while doing the repartitioning.

O/T - I just bought a laptop for my son in preparation for going to uni, and I ending up paying extra for thd same machine to have XP instead of Vista- XP's not perfect by any means, but at least it's been around for long enough that most of the nasties have been fixed.

vinny1275 - 11/7/08 at 08:39 AM

It won't automatically start doing anything when one is full, except complain...

I tend to keep windows on C: and all my data on D: - but then I'm a techy and end up rebuilding windows a lot. Keeping your data on D: will help protect you from software problems, but not a complete hard drive failure. Make sure you keep a backup of anything you want to keep on DVD or a removeable HD.

Cheers


vince

Ivan - 11/7/08 at 12:12 PM

Have always kept all my data on D drive and program files on C - makes backing up data, transferring data to other drives or reloading of Windows with re-format of drive C so much easier as you know your data is safe and you don't have to search for it in all sorts of obscure corners to make sure it's backed up.

Also means you can have a smaller C drive and larger D drive if you know approximately what you need for software. Generally 60 to 80 Gig is enough for software and the rest can be allocated to D.

Humbug - 11/7/08 at 02:47 PM

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Originally posted by Ivan
Have always kept all my data on D drive and program files on C - makes backing up data, transferring data to other drives or reloading of Windows with re-format of drive C so much easier as you know your data is safe and you don't have to search for it in all sorts of obscure corners to make sure it's backed up.

Also means you can have a smaller C drive and larger D drive if you know approximately what you need for software. Generally 60 to 80 Gig is enough for software and the rest can be allocated to D.


...except for all the configuration and settting files that are held in the depths of Cocuments and Settings

Macbeast - 11/7/08 at 05:08 PM

Ty all