Question about partition magic

[qpabani]

I made a partition on my 20 gig C:, making a 5GB D: and a 15GB C:.. if i format my C: from dos like im going to soon, will D: will affected?

[chrisjk]

not in the slightest. To the OS, it's a seperate drive.

[egiggey]

if I may make a sugestion try using a 1 gig os partition and the rest for your apps/source etc that way when windows craps out all you realy lose is windows

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by egiggey
when windows craps out

I like that!! Not "If", but "when".

[qpabani]

thats a good idea ... how about your program files?

what do u think is the main cause for the massive slowing down of your computer as time goes on?

[chrisjk]

Fragging mainly I reckon. When bits of files spread themselves over all parts of the HDD, meaning the read/write head as to move about more, which of course takes longer than if they were all bits of a file were in the same place.

[egiggey]

like chris said but also registry size as the reg gets bigger everything gets slower I run all my systems the way I sugested with a ghost image of Windows with all my apps installed then do incremental backups of everything else although its not as esential as the drive isn't as unreliable as windows voila If my sytem crashes within an hour my systems back up and running great

[Zevlag]

I have a 30GB, Use: (approximately)

Primary:
   5g for Win2K,   [NTFS]      (Developement, Everything, etc..) 
   5g for Win98se, [FAT32]     (Games)
   5g for Linux,   [LINUXext2] (Learning and Everything else)
Extended:
 258m for Swap,    [LINUXswap]
  15g for Data,    [FAT32]     (Music, Videos, VB Projects, etc...)
           ^ This is NEVER formatted. I backup the 
             most critical on it to CD-RW once a week.

I install all the Apps in there appropriate OS on the same partition because it doesn't do any good to save them if you lose your registry. I use BootMagic for my MultiBoot Loader, and have a 1 CD Ghost with my most critical Apps installed for each OS.

That is a brief skin the top detail of my hdd/backup options.

Zevalg