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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:14 pm Post subject: Large HD Partition Size
I have a silly question. I upgraded both my xbox's with 250gig hard drives. I didn't however enable the "G" partition and all the extra space is on the "F" drive. Everything seems to be working fine. I still have some 150gig left on the "F" drive.
Am I running any risk of data loss because I didn't split the extra space into two partions? Should I re-do these and use the "G" drive or am I ok with keeping everything on the LARGE "F" drive?
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:33 am Post subject:
Personally I'd suggest using a F and G Drive, it can come handy with making backups for example (you could make a backup of F and store it on G or vise versa).
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:49 am Post subject:
You should be able to format your g drive seperately without losing any of your data.. Use AID2 to format just hte G partition and you should be right..
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 3:08 am Post subject:
As you can see, from a few responses you will get it's just a personal preference type of thing. Personally, I like one big ass partition
Even with my PC I don't bother splitting up my drive. Although I have a D: partition, it's the recovery partition only.
You will find that a lot of programmers prefer to split up massive drives into a couple or even a few different partitions. They tend to have to be a little more organized.
I personally do not think you are gaining any performance benefits out of splitting....it's just preference.
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:09 am Post subject:
Thanks ModGod and Forahobby, I kind of figured it didn't make a difference but I really wanted to be sure before I put to much data on the drive than have to replace it all because I missed reading something someplace.
I am with you though ModGod. I keep all my drives as one partition (execpt my Linux Box). I do however have one hard drive for MS$ OS and any program installed. Then another hard drive for all my Data.
Anyway, thanks for the input guys.
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Use AID2 to format just hte G partition and you should be right..
