Hard Disk Partition

I posted an article on NTFS v/s FAT file system on July 08, 2007. Recently, I have noticed bad habit of Partitioning of Hard Disk. I found that people want more space on Data Partition instead of Main/OS Partition(e.g. once have 80 GB of HDD and make C = 20 GB, D=20 GB, E=20 GB, F=20 GB). The people cannot understand that C: is Primary/Logical Partition which needs more space than other partitions. Even, technical people don't have good practice regarding Partition. Thats why I need to write this article on Hard Disk Partition.

Disk Partition: It is nothing but separation/division of a single Hard Disk. There are Primary(logical) and Extended Partitions which contains NTFS or FAT file system.

Purpose for Partitioning:

• Separate area for Operating system.
• Separate area for Data.
• Multi booting operating system.
• Protect data when system crash.

Suggestion on Partitioning:

• Always use NTFS file system for partition.
• Always allocate more than 50% disk space to your logical partion.(I always create only 2 partitions per hard disk of 60:40 or 70:30 disk space ratio)
• Don't create so many partition. Use 2 or 3 partition per HDD.
• Always use compress drive on Data partition.
• Change default file save option so each and every file of your system may save on data partition.

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