veronica 2 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Can anyone simply tell me what is the point/advantage in a big HDD having a partition? Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 none (at least under windows) Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 So why would I request it if I buy a new computer? Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 You would need partition if lets say you decide to install a different operation system in the future and have your computer running both. In that case one disk partition will host windows and the other Unix(or any other OS). When ever you start your computer, you will be prompted which OS you want to start using, instead of going straight to windows. Link to post Share on other sites
veronica 2 Posted April 11, 2008 Author Share Posted April 11, 2008 Oh ok, no I wouldn't want that! Thank you Dr Tsondaboy. Link to post Share on other sites
tsondaboy 0 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 One think you could ask @ the store is to make a small disk partition and install the windows there and any other program in the other disk partition. That might improve the speed windows respond, but will not really give you any other benefit for any other programs. In that case, you will also have to not save anything else in the partition you have the windows running from. Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 a partition can be handy for capturing video. it used to be.. maybe not so much nowadays, i dont know.. Link to post Share on other sites
Ezorisu 0 Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Yes, nowadays there really isn't much need for partitioning (unless like Tsondaboy said you plan on running two OS's with a boot manager). It really was useful in the pre-Windows days so you would be less likely to save a file somewhere weird or accidently delete something from the boot partition. Performance wise, if you're doing graphics-heavy stuff or video, partitioning doesn't help with performance - a secondary HDD will. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Most new boxes come with what they call a "recovery partition". From that, you are able to make a set of CDs (or DVDs) from which you can restore the computer to the condition it was in when it came out of the box. The advantage is that you can, if the computer absolutely refuses to start, you can return to a clean reinstall and begin again. They also allow you to reinstall much of the software that was preinstalled. IF you do not make these recovery disks, you are a bl00dy idiot! If you do not get preinstalled software loaded into such a partition, you are almost as stupid! With the size of drives currently, there is no excuse for NOT having the preinstalled software on another partition. OR you could do what I have done, put the OS on a smallish drive and store all applications and the data on the second, much larger, drive! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 Well, with I would guess a huge % of people being branded as stupid, they might ask try to defend their utter stupidity by questioning why these things are not or hardly mentioned when they open up their new computer. Most people actually aren't geeks. (My guess). Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted April 13, 2008 Share Posted April 13, 2008 c'mon GG, even I knew that..... Link to post Share on other sites
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