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This will be the first time I have built a PC. (My daughter's boyfriend is going to help me). I have ordered a 40 GB hard drive and am planning on partitioning it as follows:

C drive - 4 GB (O/S - Windows XP Pro)
D drive - 10 GB (Apps)
E drive - 10 GB (Games 1)
F drive - 10 GB (Games 2)
G drive - 4 GB (MP3s)
H drive - 2 GB (Storage for burning CDs)

I will also have

I drive - DVD player
J drive - CD-RW

Is this too many partitions on my hard drive? I currently defrag and scandisk my 10.1 GB hard drive weekly and don't want those operations to take forever on the 40 GB hard drive. Also, if I remember correctly, the hard drive can locate files faster with smaller partitions. Any help and info would be greatly appreciated.

MAC

Nah no problems at all. Defrag should take about the same time unless you have a RAID config.

I think it is all about personal preference. If it wer me I would combine C&D, E&F, and G&H. I have three partions as follows

C= O/S and apps
D= Games
E= Storage (MP3's, Pictures etc)

Just my 2 cents I dont think there is anything wrong with all those partions just more complicated than need be.

Looks good - very close to what I'm using. I install ALL my apps in partitions other that the OS partitions (dual boot here) and ALL my data (everything: favorites, address book, documents folder, data files, etc) in it's own partition.

Makes it easy to backup: My Win2K partition is small enough to Ghost onto a single CD and I Ghost image my data partition once a week to a CDRW and the server.

I also have two empty scratch partitions: 1 is 1Gb for prepping project files to be burned for CD's, and the other is an 18 Gb partition for editing video files.

Another bonus in addition to reduced defrag times is some protection against data corruption. Most common disk corruptions (unless it's a physical drive crash) will not cross partitions.

Here's how my drive's partitioned:

Yeah, thats fine. If thats they way you like it and want it organized, do it! Mine is as follows:

<img src=http://hipnotictranz.homestead.com/files/drives.jpg>

I have OS/Apps on C, all games on D, all music on E, movies on F, and misc downloads/images/exes on G

Thanks for the help guys. I really aprreciate it.

MAC