I have a new 160gb hd, which is really 130gb cause they took 30gb off. I was wondering. How many partitions should I have, and how many space for each. A friend told me that, I should have at least two. One for storage, one for recovery. But he didn't tell me how much space each should contain.

Also, should it be NTFS or FAT32? I use my computer for gaming, downloads (leaving on overnight) and web design. And porno..

So please everyone, I need your opinions!

ntfs unless you need to access somethings that are real old like dos based things

feel free to share the pron

Simple...

Do you care about your data?

FAT32 has no security or file recovery features. Limited cluster size.

NTFS does and with clusters from 512 bytes to 64K

Decide what's important...

well ntfs for sure and i will divided in 3 1 partition for windows (15 gb)

1 for movies music pictures games (70gb)

1 for downloads and other stuff (the rest)

well, if ur downloading stuff, your downloads drive should be ntfs for sure because you cant go over 4 gigs in fat 32. if your getting huge dvd iso, your gonna get screwed over using fat 32.

you cant go over 4 gigs in fat 32

That is dead wrong!

Read here.

You may be thinking of FAT16.

Read here.

BTW, NTFS is the only way to go.

He meant the file size limit is 4GB, not the partition size.

So, for large DVD's the file must be split or there will be corruption.

My 160Gb drive has 3 partitions;

20Gb - Windows (C:)

80Gb - Programs Files (D:)

50Gb - Storage/Files/Downloads (E:)

I set the location of program files to D: in the registry. When I install an application or game, it defaults to D:

This way, when I install/unintall stuff from D:, my windows partition doesn't get fragmented as quickly. It also keeps windows nice and small. I'm often adding and removing large files from E: so it gets fragmented quickly. Having it seperate to everything else is a good idea.