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On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:54:01 +1100, "Alan b" <alan_b@bigfoot.com>
wrote:

>
>Andy K wrote in message <73od90$3c2$1@otis.netspace.net.au>...
>>I will be installing a 6.4Gb second hard drive soon. I am running Windows
>95
>>version 4.00.950.B. and was told that with this version I may not need to
>>partition the HD. I was also told by another person that it is always
>better
>>to partition a HD into smaller partitions. Who is right?
>>Andy K
>>
>>-------------------------REPLY ---------------------------------------
>
>It all depends on what you want to do.
>  Advantages of partitioning to small drives are
>1.  You can assign each drive to different jobs or persons.  (For example I
>have partitions for  CD copying,  Kids ,  Software and data.  The advantage
>is you can format and restart each partition without the worry about the
>loss of  info. on other partitions.  You can stops kids filling the hard
>disk with all the games they can find.
>
>2.  You can defrag and scan the drives independently.  Also fragmentation of
>the drive will be less if you keep only programs on one drive  and data on
>another.
>
>Regards
>
>Alan b
>
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	Well said, Alan !

Also the time taken to defragment a very large partition should be
taken into concideration - in a perfect world defragmentation would
always  performed when the computer would not otherwise be in use,
but in the real world.........

John.


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