HEAD UP - Patition manager - be quick
ushere
wrote on 8/12/2009, 2:48 AM
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farss
wrote on 8/12/2009, 3:16 AM
Thanks although I've never needed to partition a HDD, not the way video gobbles up TB sized disks.
Bob.
Bob.
fausseplanete
wrote on 8/12/2009, 1:27 PM
Thanks a lot, I was only wondering earlier today what partition management app to get hold of. I wonder what happens when you give them your email though (in order to get the free serial) - does doing that invite much junk email?
ingvarai
wrote on 8/12/2009, 3:37 PM
Thanks!
For those who consider downloading and installing this, comment #15 ont the give-away web page is well worth a read.
ingvarai
For those who consider downloading and installing this, comment #15 ont the give-away web page is well worth a read.
ingvarai
Steve Mann
wrote on 8/12/2009, 7:23 PM
Partitioning is an anachronism from the old days when the hard-disks were bigger than the O/S could address. The only uses are if you need to dual-boot another O/S or if your backup/restore workflow would benefit from a partition exclusively for the O/S (on drive C:).
NickHope
wrote on 8/13/2009, 12:05 AM
I still like my OS and my data separate, and on my laptop I only have one HDD. I backup my C: (OS and programs) using Acronis TrueImage and I want that file to be as small as possible. I prefer to backup all my data with simple file copies. I don't trust drive images for that, having had a couple in the past that wouldn't load. And obviously you can't back up your OS with simple file copies.
ingvarai
wrote on 8/13/2009, 10:45 AM
Partitioning is an anachronism from the old days when the hard-disks were bigger than the O/S could address. The only uses are if you need to dual-boot another O/S or if your backup/restore workflow would benefit from a partition exclusively for the O/S (on drive C:).
I think I always will use partitions. The reasons you mention are important enough for me. I do dualboot, and I do backup (Acronis- making disk images). I have also become used to having the OS and installed apps on one partition, and my work nother partitions. And I also have several physical disks, my video work is not on the same physical disk as the OS, and not on the same disk as the Windows swap file.
ingvarai
I think I always will use partitions. The reasons you mention are important enough for me. I do dualboot, and I do backup (Acronis- making disk images). I have also become used to having the OS and installed apps on one partition, and my work nother partitions. And I also have several physical disks, my video work is not on the same physical disk as the OS, and not on the same disk as the Windows swap file.
ingvarai
Chienworks
wrote on 8/13/2009, 12:33 PM
I still don't see much need for a partition manager.
If i'm gonna partition a drive i'll do it when i first install the drive. (Well, heck, *every* drive needs to be partitioned when installed, but most of us don't think of a storage space spanning the entire drive as a partition.) The only drive i might consider breaking into multiple partitions is the boot drive, and i'll never have a need to change the partitioning on it, not ever, so the built-in Windows installation tools are sufficient for the task.
Should i ever at some future date decide that the partition sizes we absolutely unworkable, enough time has passed that i'm probably building a new system or installing a new boot drive with probably 8x the space of the previous drive, so the choice becomes very noncritical again. And, the only time i'll partition that drive is during installation so once again no partition manager will be necessary.
But, i haven't multi-partitioned a Windows drive since NTFS came out, and the only reason i ever did so before was due to FAT32's volume size limit.
If i'm gonna partition a drive i'll do it when i first install the drive. (Well, heck, *every* drive needs to be partitioned when installed, but most of us don't think of a storage space spanning the entire drive as a partition.) The only drive i might consider breaking into multiple partitions is the boot drive, and i'll never have a need to change the partitioning on it, not ever, so the built-in Windows installation tools are sufficient for the task.
Should i ever at some future date decide that the partition sizes we absolutely unworkable, enough time has passed that i'm probably building a new system or installing a new boot drive with probably 8x the space of the previous drive, so the choice becomes very noncritical again. And, the only time i'll partition that drive is during installation so once again no partition manager will be necessary.
But, i haven't multi-partitioned a Windows drive since NTFS came out, and the only reason i ever did so before was due to FAT32's volume size limit.