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And do I really need to partition the HD? Or put an other way how much
benefit do you get by partitioning an 80 gig drive?

TIA

As far partitioning the hard drive goes you don't have to do it, but I
would.

First I'd make a FAT32 partion for Win98se, Then I'd leave a second partion
for NTFS and a newer OS like XP or Win2k. Then I would have a third partion
to save all the ***I download to. If you keep all your drivers, patches,
and extras on a separate partion its no big deal to back and redo your o/s
because you have all the stuff handy for a reinstall.

Of course its your system and you can do it anyway you please.

MadDAWG

Partition in something like 40/40 or 50/30  - so that you have a large space
to store your 'stuff'

The other partition is for Windows and apps etc.

This way - when you come to reinstall windows ( at least every 6 months for
me - windows gets slower with age ) - you have all your stuff on the other
partition ready to copy back across and backed up

Doug

But if you don't have a newer OS (like Win2k, NT or XP) a NTFS partition is
a waste of space since Win98 can see NTFS partitions.

    The biggest advantage to partioning is, at least with Fat32, you reduce
the size of individual clusters.  So a one word text file consumes the same
amount of hd space as a much larger file.  The smaller your partitions, the
smaller each cluster becomes.  
    The second advantage to partitons is when you defrag your hard drive.  
Do you know how LONG it takes to defrag an 80meg drive?  zzzzz zzzzzz
zzzzzzz
dave henrie

Yes I do, or should I say, I will.... IF IT EVER FREAKIN GETS DONE   :)

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With 80GB of space, you can afford to waste some of it if you don't
want to partition your space.

Some of the Windows disk utilities struggle with large drives (not
sure how big is "large"), but there is a MS update for these.

Yep, it takes a while, as does simply formatting it, thorough scandisk
runs, etc.  I usually just let it start at bedtime and by morning it
is done.  If you anticipate running these tools freqently and during
otherwise productive times, you probably should create at least one
small partition for the OS to live in.

Gerald

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