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EZ Partitioning!Jun 11 '00 (Updated Jul 08 '00) Write an essay on this topic.Wondering how to optimally partition a drive eh? Working with and building computer systems as a hobby of mine, I have found that there are a few choices that you have to make while doing such a task. My suggestion to people who want to partition a existing drive, buy software called Partition's Magic, which is a program suit that allows you to adjust your partitions without losing any data. This software I have tried in many versions, the newest versions having the most features and applets installed. One applet that I found useful was the "boot applet" which allows you to boot into different operating systems. If your using a multi booted system, you will in most cases have different file type partitions such as FAT, FAT32, NTFS, HPFS and Linux ext2 which Partitions Magic has support for. This allows you to manage and update whatever changes you would like to make to the partition table, weather it be changing free diskspace over, creating a new partition for whatever os that you need, deleting partitions and with the new "Magic Mover" will move applications between partitions and automatically update their drive letter references. A easy to understand, 143 page manual accompanies the software. Excellent support on PowerQuest's (The people who make the software) Website, and toll free tech support, just incase the easy graphical interface becomes a bit confusing for you. You can buy Partition Magic at around $70. PowerQuest Corp., (800) 379-2566. If you like old fashion dirty partitioning you may want to read up on FDISK, FDISK is a utility built into most of microsoft's Os's such as MS-DOS, Windows 95/98, this is a old utility that will not let you customize and resize your partitions without having to lose data. It has a none graphical interface and is not intended for newbies trying to partition. You have the choice if you have a large hard drive (bigger then 2gigs) then you will have to choose weather to chop it up into fat16s or one big fat 32? I would personally prefer fat 16 even though it does take up more space per file, I find it to be more stable then fat 32. I have found it to perform better, unless you have UDMA.  |
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