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From: Chris Freeman
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 00:00

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Hey Andy,  Noone is right in my opinion.  But win95 osr2 or 950b supports what
we call fat32 which would allow you to make one big HD of 6.4Gb but I always
find it wise to partition your drive in a minimum of 3 drives.  I use one drive
c for nothing more than my operating system and programs that are utilities to
my OS ex. norton anti virus or norton utilities.  I then use a d drive to load
all my programs into.  Then the e drive is for nothing but my data files.  This
way is easy to back up all you have to do is back up your entire e drive and
your data is backed up. If you need info on partitioning I found this link that
will give you this info.
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardware/hdrives/partitions/
Best of luck to you        feel free to e-mail me at freemanc@earthlink.net

Andy K wrote:

> 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

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Date: 1998/11/28
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