From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Tue Nov 02 1999 - 12:22:00 EST
WHAT..!!?
you mean "one size fits all" really IS a lie..! :-)
sounds like one size fits one only..!
heheh..
you make a good point for multiple partitions..
but i have always found one worked well for me since a never use more than one
OS on any particular drive..
and flipping drives in and out of the ultrabay (which i do frequently, with
bootable drives) would not confuse things..
apps and data were where they are supposed to be...
"Chuck S." wrote:
> Bill,
>
> A little known fact is that adding a 2nd drive will not change drive letters
> of the first drive if you do not make the 2nd drive a bootable drive. There
> are several advantages of having multiple partitions on a drive. For
> WinNT, make c: a 2 GB FAT-16 file system so you can boot your TP from a DOS
> diskette to troubleshoot files on c: if you cannot boot-up from your hard
> drive. Make your 2nd partition NTFS. For Win98, make c: FAT-16 and your 2nd
> partition FAT-32. Multiple partitions will also help you organize your data
> to prevent disk fragmentation and will allow you to more easily do selective
> backups. And you can resize the partitions with Partition Magic if you need
> to.
>
> Chuck
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill Morrow <penzance_at_icanect.net>
> To: Guy Pelchat <gpelchat_at_iu.net>
> Cc: <JEShoemaker_at_aol.com>; <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>; <bill_at_thinkpads.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 9:26 AM
> Subject: Re: Using Partition Magic 4.0
>
> | the main advantage is the drive letters don't change when you add a 2nd
> | HDD (that is a bootable drive, as most are) to the ultrabay..
> |
> | Guy Pelchat wrote:
> |
> | > ----- Original Message -----
> | > From: <JEShoemaker_at_aol.com>
> | > To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> | > Cc: <bill_at_thinkpads.com>
> | > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 7:29 AM
> | > Subject: Using Partition Magic 4.0
> | >
> | > > I recently coverted my 770X 8.1GB HDD to FAT 32
> | > > using Windows 98's Fat convertor utility. When I asked
> | > > about this, Bill Morrow and others suggested also using
> | > > Partition Magic 4.0 to change the 2 partitions to just one
> | > > 8.1GB partition.
> | >
> | > What are the advantages of one large partition over two smaller ones?
> | >
> | > Guy
> |
> | --
> | Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...
> |
> | ** Bill Morrow ** :-)
> | WEB page http://thinkpads.com, new site coming:
> | http://www.roadwarriortrading.com
> | Thinkpad User Community: http://thinkpads.com/enter.html
> | Compuserve Thinkpad(c) Forum Sysop, Webmaster
> | http://www.roadwarriortrading.com
> | e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
> |
> | use the delete key to avoid unwanted flames,
> | any mis-spellings are the fault of the spell checker, poor typing skills
> | or i just don't care.. :-)
> |
> |
> |
-- Live Long and Prosper, Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com, new site coming: http://www.roadwarriortrading.com Thinkpad User Community: http://thinkpads.com/enter.html Compuserve Thinkpad(c) Forum Sysop, Webmaster http://www.roadwarriortrading.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
use the delete key to avoid unwanted flames, any mis-spellings are the fault of the spell checker, poor typing skills or i just don't care.. :-)
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Thu Jan 23 2003 - 09:55:32 EST