best way of creating partitions

[phungilax]

Well my new hard drive is in the mail. once i get my new hard drive what will be the best way to partition it. apparently maxplus doens't support XP. so would i have to use fdisk. or is there a 3rd party DOS program that i can put on a boot disk to make partitions supporting XP

*Note I want C:, D: E: partitions

[Yodums]

Use fdisk then use option #5 to switch to the unpartitioned drive in the fdisk menu. From there create partition and format.

If your on Win XP boot with the bootdisks and create from there.

[XprincoX]

yea fdisk would work just fine, but then theres also a lotta other progs that make the process pretty easy, like partition magic, etc.

[phungilax]

partition magic can work on hard drives in which partition magic is not installed?

[takiwa]

well, phungilax, if you are not going to use NTFS, then you can download Ranish Partition Manager (http://users2.ev1.net/~mranish/part/part237.zip), and partition your harddrive with it. you can load it from DOS with a floppy, off a CD or off the HDD itself, once it's in DOS, it'll wipe the disc. it's a nice program, try it out

[Ebola]

why use partitions? no real benifit.

[XprincoX]

yes very true.. too many partition may become more of a hassle rather than a benefit. :burn:

[nodoze]

Originally posted by phungilax
partition magic can work on hard drives in which partition magic is not installed?

YES. When you install Partition Magic it will prompt you to create a set of "Rescue Disks". These disks are bootable & contain a DOS version of P.M. that will run on startup.

[diehrd]

Originally posted by Ebola
why use partitions? no real benifit.

I find a benifit by saving all programs to a partition and all tweaks to a partition and all drivers.As well as firewall software,Anti virus program,ect.......

Then If I decide to format C I simply use drive D to load all my programs,and drivers which usually require a cd to install.

I also keep an image of the drive on a partition as well as on a seperate drive to allow instant recovery of drive C.

[Grande Juan]

I tend to agree with Ebola, Why bother.

[diehrd]

Why bother ? I dont think this topic was about if it is a good idea it was asking how and if 3rd party software is avail.

But thanks for you keen help to this member.

[Grande Juan]

Okay I gracefully remove my opinion and keep it to myself.

[phungilax]

Now we are all entitled to our opinons. I believe that partitions are all a personal preference. I personally like them because it keeps me organized. Also because I plan on dual booting I'll need partitions.

I usually have a system partition a data partition and a program install partitions. THis way I won't have to worry about backing up data if i want to format windows or something.

[Steven J Gore]

Personally, I use Partition Magic 7, and once the boot disks have been created from within Windows, PM7 does not need to be installed on the system to run from floppy/DOS mode. I just set up a RAID 0 array using two unformatted 40GB IBM hard disks and PM7, and it was incredibly easy and went without any problems.

Oh, and the point of partitions, as I think someone has already said, is that you can reinstall Windows on your C drive, whilst keeping all your downloads/videos/mps3's etc. untouched on your D drive etc. Why make life difficult for yourself?