Help with HDD's

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Mar 18, 2002 7:22 am

I've tryed all that. The whole issue is that Ghost simply can't see the drive. At the point after adding the lic # (selecting disc-to-disc) there's an options tab and I've tryed everything that seems to relate about SCSI, etc. Then there's another tab to check the discs and all that's shown there is the original. The second (new) HDD is now fully functional in Windows (and the SCSI startup menu clearly shows it as well, not a SCSI driver/adaptor issue).

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Mar 18, 2002 6:07 pm

I would urge you to reconsider using one large 120Gb partition. There's several good reasons:

- It takes a LONG time to scandisk and defrag that large a partition.

- With that large a partition you have a greater chance of data corruption trashing the whole drive. Most data corruption will not affect more than one partition unless it's a physical disk crash.

- With multiple partitions you can easily make Ghost images of your primary partition and save it to the second partition.

- If you do any video editing, it's MUCH more convenient to assemble your videos in an empty partition since to do proper video capture and editing you should ALWAYS defrag your drive before starting (if you use an empty video partition like I do, you never have to defrag it - just delete everything in it before the next project and don't maintain a recycling bin on it - an empty drive IS defragged).

Insane Morphius · Post by **Insane Morphius** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 2:33 am

FlyingPenguin,

Thanks for the tips bro. Heres my situation. I need a huge file on "C" drive in order to share using P2P, as it only recognizes files from that specific drive and file, unless there is some type of work around that I am unaware of.

I now am not in need of any more space because of the large drives mentioned below

120GB WD 7200RPM "C"
160GB Maxtor 5400RPM "D"
160GB Maxtor 5400RPM "E"

I backup the entire "C" drive to "E" every week now

My "D" drive is for my DV stuff

Again, thanks

Morph

Busby · Post by **Busby** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 7:02 am

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
I would urge you to reconsider using one large 120Gb partition. There's several good reasons:

- It takes a LONG time to scandisk and defrag that large a partition.

Depends on the way it is hooked up FP. I had a 127GB partition when I had dual 80GB in RAID and defrag and such didn't take extreme amounts of time.