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Brutus

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I have a fresh install of Windows and am at the screen asking for partitions. In the past I have made on big drive called C:. But would the following work?

C: Windows files
D: Movies and Music
E: Games
F: Programs

As long as I download music and save movies in D:, install games on E:, and install my programs on F: will every work normally?
 
Installing your programs on F: might be a little problem, I tried that once. Windows wants to have everything installed in the Program Files folder on the C: drive. However, installing them on the F: drive is possible, it will just make life more difficult.

Other than that, everything is fine.
 
You are better off there with only having two partitions the primary with all of the programs installed normally with an extended used for storage. You'll find that frequent backups to removeable media will be a large help there since having low disk space will see system slowdowns.
 
I agree, I tried that once before as well and theres really no point, since if Windows is corrupt you need to re-install the games and programs anyways.

So I would make a partition for Windows along with programs and games, and a seperate partition for data storage.
 
You would be surprised at how fast you can fill a drive up and end up with a stalled system from not planning out a drive correctly. Crisscrossing installations between partitions can be a big head ache when things don't go right. If you run out of room on the primary you then decide to custom to a second not 3rd or 4th partition.

You can also gain drive space when not splitting a drive up too much. Adding a second drive will take a load off of the primary. I find that out regularly when getting that sudden slowdown and "low disk space" popup messages during video capturing. The wonders of a second drive besides having storage space is being able to dual OS there without effecting the primary. If the primary gets trashed for some reason the secondary remains intact. If the two primary partitions on the second drive get wiped the storage partition is still there to retrieve data and files from. It's a thought.
 
4 primary partitions or 3 primaries and an extended partition on an MBR type drive. In the extended partition you create an endless amount of logical drives. GPT drives can have 128 primary partitions while not allowing any extended or logical drives on those. For an extensive explaination on partitions and drive volumes the XP Pro resource kit's disk management section is the thing to look over. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c12621675.mspx#E1BAC
 
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