Thanks, I was getting conflicting answers which didn't make sense to me.

I had a problem where my video files which were transferred from primary to secondary drive became jittery. When I took some avi files back to primary the videos played fine. Asked for advice, and the recommendation was to partition the second harddrive.

Would the size of the hard drive matter for number of partitions? Mine is 120 gig.

TIA
Tom

i have an 80GB drive for videos in a single partition (ntfs since i'm running xp). i can't see a reason to have more than one partition but i'm not that experienced with videos yet.

A dedicated drive for video will give you a performance improvement, but the only advantage I can see in partitioning is in organising your work. Since you can do that with folders it doesn't seem like much of an advantage. If there's a problem with the 2nd drive I'd look at things like making sure DMA is enabled and checking it's a master disk on the secondary IDE channel.

Ian G.

I agree -- one partition, nothing but video, and defrag, defrag, defrag....