🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 28 Nov 1998 02:47:45 -0800, Chris Freeman <freemanc@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>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

Wise has nothing to do with the choice.
This is your experience, and that is fine.
Andy has to decide what he wants to do.  1 big partition has disadvantages, 3
partitions have disadvantages.

Neither way is best.


>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
>