New Hard Drive 160gb

[tubui]

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!

[rjz]

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

feel free to share the pron

[Marsden]

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...

[boooggy]

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)

[sven]

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.

[Ge0ph]

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.

[Eck]

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.

[At0mic]

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.