Yes it uses a lot of letters, - 4, or 8 and you have to decide which partition to put things in
Then again a defrag of 400GB will take quite some time as will a backup/restore The manage facility is part of the OS and is available all the time the OS is running - It will allow you to partition the drive, and 'format' it for use within windows The Indexing basically creates an index of all the words it finds in all the files you put on the partition, so you can search for text (really useful for a partition full of films, music, and pictures, and software executables) The index will not only take a lot of time to create and maintain, but will also use a lot of disk space (hidden as in the MFT) The other consideration is do you want to put a booting OS onto this new drive, If so you will need to have a Primary partition at the beginning of the drive (and marked as active if you want it to boot) All the data partitions can go in an extended partition and the sum of the primary partitions and extended partitions you should not be more than 4 but each extended partition can have as many secondary partitions as you want JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Dykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 8:46 PM Subject: Re: Outpost.com | Seagate 3.5 PATA Intern al Hard Dri ve > When I opened the message, I found that James Button had written: > > > I'd advise that when you create the NTFS? Partitions on it (My > > Computer Manage Storage) you limit the partitions to about 100Gb, (50 > > is possibly better) as that will allow you to manage the > > backup/recovery/defrag's in a reasonable amount of time for a single > > partition. > > Understandable, but wouldn't that creat a whold bunch of drive letters? > > You said "My Computer Manage Storage". Is that only available when > installing the drive? > > Also - unless you want the system to create and maintain an > > index of the contents of each file on the disk, turn off NTFS indexing > > for the partitions > > Whats the advantage/disadvantage of this? > > Thanks a lot. > > Jim > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
