partition size

[sboulema]

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well pardon me for thinking that to partition a drive was to split a single hard disk drive into seperate volumes

Yes, a drive is always partitioned. In one partition are in seperate ones. So a drive without partitions doesn't exists.

 

[2z]

Originally posted by sboulema
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Yes, a drive is always partitioned. In one partition are in seperate ones. So a drive without partitions doesn't exists.

a drive that does not have at least 1 partition cannot have data recorded on to it but as for not existing i'm not so sure about that

you do not format NTFS on to a drive the NTFS is a partition
you then format that partition or a least that's the way it works for fat32

NTFS stability RULES

 

[2z]

one spliff two many

 

[Gouk]

Originally posted by catch23
How the hell can you have data on a drive without partitioning it?

He (Goku) has a C: ..and a D: ...each are a hard drive...each formatted NTFS

You are correct.

Originally posted by Goku
I'm using two NTFS partitions and both take all of the respective space of their HDD's.

To those who misunderstood, I meant that I have 2 NTFS partitions on my PC, 1 on each HDD and each partition is the size of the whole drive i.e I do NOT have 2 partitions on 1 HDD.

Understand now?

 

[2z]

Originally posted by sboulema
He guys and girls.

I was just wondering how big is your partition where you put your OS on.
I have XP installed on a 3 gig partition and it is constantly nagging about the fact that the partition is full.

So if know how big you make your patition I can change mine to a proper size.

so your advice would be - don't bother with extended partition just add another HDD ?