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post #21 of 33
3/1/03 at 8:53am

Hmmm

You should have selected the remaining space while installing XP to create a second partition there That way it would show up as D: or whatever in My Computer.

Anyway - you can do the following :-

1] In XP - Control Panels
2] Performance and Maintenance
3] Administrative Tools
4] Computer Management
5] Storage
6] Disk management (Local)
7] And at the bottom of this window you will find the necessary tools to partition the remaining space

Please let us know if this workd...

Cheers!!
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post #22 of 33
3/1/03 at 8:58am
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Originally posted by Wisefish
Ok I got my laptop and I made a 28 gb partition and left the rest upartitioned. I installed xp on the 28 gb partition. How do I access the rest of the Hdd? It doesn't show up as anything in my comuter.
If XP, I'd stick the Windows CD back in and create the partition, then quit setup, boot up to Windows, open my computer, it should show up and you can right click and go to format and it'll be ready to use.
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post #23 of 33
3/1/03 at 9:38am
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It is also good practice to have a seperate partition for your high traffic disc use.(eg. lots of media coming and going)This helps avoid fragmentation of your system and program files.You may also want to keep your swap file on the second partition for the same reason.
I think that the spirit of the comment was that if you use the non OS partition for the file swapping you have one less thing to worry about for 1 corruption 2 space ( I tend to make the OS drive smaller than it needs to be). It is a good idea to get in the habit to not install/download ANYTHING but drivers and OS items into your primary (OS) partition
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post #24 of 33
3/1/03 at 3:05pm
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Originally posted by Yale2006
Yes, you can. You can map B: to a network drive if you want. I bet you can put anything else too.

As for the letter thing, that's one of the greatest mysteries of Computer Science. What the hell happens after you reach Z:\.

Cheers.
Yeah im wondering if microsoft even thought of it.. or is it like the year 2000 deal, knew about it being a possible problem since dates were set to be handled (at least 20 years) that way yet didnt start working on fixing it until a few years before 2000.......
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post #25 of 33
3/1/03 at 4:57pm
Thread Starter 
Ok, I got it fixed. I had to do what pctorque said earilier using the xp disk. It didn't work when I tried to do it from this
1] In XP - Control Panels
2] Performance and Maintenance
3] Administrative Tools
4] Computer Management
5] Storage
6] Disk management (Local)
7] And at the bottom of this window you will find the necessary tools to partition the remaining space
Thanks for the help everyone.
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post #26 of 33
3/1/03 at 5:29pm
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Originally posted by Yale2006
Yes, you can. You can map B: to a network drive if you want. I bet you can put anything else too.

As for the letter thing, that's one of the greatest mysteries of Computer Science. What the hell happens after you reach Z:\.

Cheers.
I think you can only assign it as a virtual drive (I.E mapping to a network location) but cant assign b: to a physical drive other then a floppy.. not sure though.. used to be not even able to do that i beleive..
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post #27 of 33
3/1/03 at 9:18pm
If you use all the letters a-z, then the next letter assignments will double, aa, bb...etc
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post #28 of 33
3/2/03 at 2:52am
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Originally posted by skot
If you use all the letters a-z, then the next letter assignments will double, aa, bb...etc
Really? Wow, I never heard of that.. heh, does it go "AA, AB, AC..." or just "AA BB CC" ?

I suppose the next question is, do they tripple when they are full again?

-myrkat
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post #29 of 33
3/2/03 at 3:54am
Thread Starter 
If they double I think it is safe to say they would also triple.
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post #30 of 33
3/2/03 at 1:11pm
what if you have two hard drives? do you get some sort of increased performance by seperating the swap file, OS, etc. on different drives?
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post #31 of 33
3/2/03 at 1:17pm
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Originally posted by someguy035
what if you have two hard drives? do you get some sort of increased performance by seperating the swap file, OS, etc. on different drives?
In theory yes =) I haven't benched it in the Sager to compare though.
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post #32 of 33
4/2/03 at 3:21am
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Originally posted by someguy035
what if you have two hard drives? do you get some sort of increased performance by seperating the swap file, OS, etc. on different drives?
I am currently running a 120GB and a 180GB HD on my desktop (waiting till this summer to get my Sager) and I did in fact get an increase in performance by seperating everything i.e... the OS, swap file, ect...

C = 07GB = Windows 2000/drivers
D = 07GB = Windows XP Pro/drivers
E = 29GB = Programs
F = 29GB = Games
G = 42GB = Misc./New Downloads
H = 21GB = Pictures
I = 49GB = Music
J = 49GB = Movies
K = 49Gb = Web/Graphic Design

My second HD (drives H - K) is mostly for storage/archiving.

Hey Myrkat, hows that for ANAL-RETENTIVE?
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post #33 of 33
4/2/03 at 4:59pm
Sorry to post onto an old thread w/ plenty of information, I just thought I'd give my advice. I've got 5 partitions like this:

1) 18gig XP/programs (formatted NTFS)
2) 15gig All data, MP3s, etc. (FAT32)
3-5) Linux partitions (ext3 and swap)

I keep my data sections FAT32 so that I can work w/ them in Linux, and so that I can access them from even the oldest bootdisk. I know it's supposedly less secure than NTFS, but that's what backups are for. If you are thinking about putting your data on the same drive as your Windows install, all I can say is CRAZY. I've formatted my first partition 3 times already, and it's great to know that I only have to reinstall, and I've automatically got my data there. Hope to help!

Andy
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