Partition Hard Drive Help

[dcook]

I have decided to partition my hard drive usingPartition Magic 7.0. I know that some parts of a drive are faster and better for capturing video. How do I select my partition to be on that section? For what it is worth I am looking at partioning off 25gigs of my 42gig drive.
Thanks 8)

[ace-tex]

You would be much better off if you saved the money for Partition Magic, and purchased a separate hard disk for your video captures. As far as I can see, the only advantage of a partition on your main disk is that it easier to keep degragmented.

[Robbins1940]

Shouldn't this be in Off topic forum?

David

[dcook]

Partion Magic is free from a friend and I am sorry but I thought this was on topic as it is part of capturing. My appologies if it is off topic.

[HillJack]

For what it's worth, I recently posted in another topic that Partition Magic is garbage. I say that because I used v7.0 to MOVE a partition, and low and behold, Windows would not start back up afterwards.

Assuming your computer isnt ancient, why bother with trying to "place" a partition anywhere? There are multiple platters in a hard disk just so its NOT like a CD-ROM, where the inside of the disk (beginning) is read faster because of the lower circumference. Your wasting your time, just make a partition and be done with it.

If you use Win2K, see if its Disk Manager will do your partitioning. If your not using 2K, you can use PM 7, but good luck -- don't be suprised if you can't boot windows after it SAYS its done I personally would just backup what I need and reformat the drive and do my partitioning with good old reliable FDisk.

On a side note, some people will probably disagree with me that PM sucks, well, more power to them. I'm simply relaying *MY* opinion/experiences with it. If you've had good luck with it, good for you. It's garbage and it will never be worth the $0.25 CD its stamped on imo.

[TOMMO]

I would agree that purchasing a dedicated 2nd hard drive is the optimum solution. However,creating logical drives in extended partions is better than writing to a system disk.

If you are considering capturing large files you will need to use an NTFS format, which will require 2K or XP operating systems.

Partiton Magic 7 supports XP. I cannot comment on version 7, but I have been successful with version 6 in creating system with three operating systems on it. Pretty ewasy really, and very useful if you wish to repartitons your drive and keep your current system. I would suggest that you back up critical data prior to using it, just in case you hit problems.

If however you are going to start from scratch, just use FDISK to create partitions at the outset, but install 98SE first to your C: drive, then, install the NTFS operating systems to one of your other drives, let the install program format that drive to NTFS during the install provcedure.

Ideally you will need three drives:-

C: WIN98SE
D: WIN2K or XP
E: Large Partiton, formated by XP or 2k to NTFS for capturing to.

Hope this helps

[spiderman2k1]

if your useing win98 make a 2 to 3 gig for windows for window 2000 3 to 4 gig's amd the rest can be all extend or you can break it up with logical drives. If you partion it you protected you capture if some thing goes wrong on your c drive and you can not fix and the only way to fix it is formatting

[kinneera]

For what it's worth, I recently posted in another topic that Partition Magic is garbage. I say that because I used v7.0 to MOVE a partition, and low and behold, Windows would not start back up afterwards.

This is probably more an issue worthy of a separate thread, but you didn't just try to move a system partition somewhere else did you? If so, its almost certainly not PM's fault, but Windows (its well known that many operating systems, including older versions of Windows, don't like to boot if they're loaded beyond the 1024 cylinder). You generally have to use a boot manager to get around this, and/or make sure picky operating systems are at the front of the disc.