New 1TB Spin Point F1

[Bungral]

Ok guys, I've finally got an upgrade from my ol 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 or .10.

Aaaaaanyway I just want your opinions on how you would set it up / partition it.

I'm going to use my Vista Home Premium as my primary OS and I'll also set up Windows 7 on it. Is the easiest way to do that just to give it say it's own 50GB - 100GB partition?? It can always be deleted at a later day and just given back to one of the main partitions when the Beta is over.

Also is it worth having your OS and game installations on a 'OS' partition and the rest of your data on another partition? Or just leave it as one giant partition (baring of course the W7 one).

All opinions appreciated, but be quick as I wanna get going on it

 

[VonBlade]

I always, ALWAYS, have my stuff on another drive, and my OS/Games on one single one.

I reformat fairly often, and have certainly had OS' fall over in a terminal style, that I'd never risk my important stuff on my OS HD.

 

[zak4994]

Vista has its own partitioning program:

Here are teh instructions

1. Open Computer Management by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Computer Management.Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

2. In the Navigation pane, under Storage, click Disk Management.

3. Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then click New Simple Volume.

4. In the New Simple Volume Wizard, click Next.

5. Type the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then click Next.

6. Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then click Next.

7.

In the Format Partition dialogue box, do one of the following:

• If you don't want to format the volume right now, click Do not format this volume, and then click Next.

• To format the volume with the default settings, click Next.

8. Review your choices, and then click Finish.

 

[Bungral]

How much do you allow for the OS partition?

Thing is, even if the OS corrupts, you can still get at the data by just booting from another drive / partition. I spose it's still the best bet though. Also just checking that when you say drive, you mean partition? Or an actual other physical drive?

I'll be backing my stuff up anyway.

I always, ALWAYS, have my stuff on another drive, and my OS/Games on one single one.

I reformat fairly often, and have certainly had OS' fall over in a terminal style, that I'd never risk my important stuff on my OS HD.

Kinda missed the point of the question a bit Zak...

I know it's got it's own partitioning utility, but I've got a new drive... I'm going to be doing a fresh install on it but wanted to know how people have theirs set up. Thanks though

Vista has its own partitioning program:

Here are teh instructions

1. Open Computer Management by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking Computer Management.Administrator permission required If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

2. In the Navigation pane, under Storage, click Disk Management.

3. Right-click an unallocated region on your hard disk, and then click New Simple Volume.

4. In the New Simple Volume Wizard, click Next.

5. Type the size of the volume you want to create in megabytes (MB) or accept the maximum default size, and then click Next.

6. Accept the default drive letter or choose a different drive letter to identify the partition, and then click Next.

7.

In the Format Partition dialogue box, do one of the following:

• If you don't want to format the volume right now, click Do not format this volume, and then click Next.

• To format the volume with the default settings, click Next.

8. Review your choices, and then click Finish.

 

[zak4994]

How much do you allow for the OS partition?

Thing is, even if the OS corrupts, you can still get at the data by just booting from another drive / partition. I spose it's still the best bet though. Also just checking that when you say drive, you mean partition? Or an actual other physical drive?

I'll be backing my stuff up anyway.

Kinda missed the point of the question a bit Zak...

I know it's got it's own partitioning utility, but I've got a new drive... I'm going to be doing a fresh install on it but wanted to know how people have theirs set up. Thanks though

Oh lol.

I thought you had the OS installed.

Sorry had to skim read because I had to go to teh toilet!!

 

[FarFarAway]

I do this.

2 drives.

1st one:

30-50gb Partition for Vista

The rest for anything to store but that's not really important to me

2nd one:

Storage drive with important info on it

500GB External NAS (RAID 1):

Backup of everything important to me.

 

[Bungral]

So you do the actual program installs on the second 'storage' partition?

I'm thinking I'll go Vista partition of something like 50GB, with a storage partition of ummm 900GB (for all installs, downloads and my junk) and whatever's left to a third Windows 7 partition.

I've got an external 250GB drive that I can keep stuff on. Spose I could keep my current 250GB in the PC and just use it as a backup for all my important stuff and just unplug it's power when I aint doing a backup.

I do this.

2 drives.

1st one:

30-50gb Partition for Vista

The rest for anything to store but that's not really important to me

2nd one:

Storage drive with important info on it

500GB External NAS (RAID 1):

Backup of everything important to me.

 

[VonBlade]

I mean actual physical hard-drives. Partitions are still vunerable to entire hardware failure, and I've lost everything once.

Fool me once...

 

[FarFarAway]

I mean actual physical hard-drives. Partitions are still vunerable to entire hardware failure, and I've lost everything once.

Fool me once...

Yep that's what I'm saying. Keep all your data on another HDD.

usually if an OS goes pete tong then you can just re-install it.

I keep most of my progs on my second drive, usually does the trick

 

[mrapoc]

Id do

1/3 of the drive for vista

1/3 for windows 7

1/3 for ubuntu (great os...excellent when windows goes **** up reading partitions and stuff)

Use the other hard drive for storing music, photos, isos, etc. etc.

Then have another hard drive external or NAS for backing all of that up

nothing sucks more than losing all the family photos

 

[moogle]

I do

1) Drive for OS and user files/programs.

2) Drive for Games and VM's

3) Drive for backups of everything.

 

[Diablo]

I'll be getting a new 1TB spinpoint (back from RMA grrr) and I'll be keeping all my personal data backed up onto that. I also have a 120GB drive for mucking about with betas etc.