How many drives/partitions do you have?

[Suicide Junkie]

Given the CD drive letters issue that came up, I'm curious.

[ October 11, 2003, 02:08: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

e. but it's not really power-using, c is small, d is kinda small and e is the cd. b is nonexistant and i don't think i have to tell you what a is.

[Jake Monroe]

I have a CD drive and a DVD/CD-RW drive.

If anyone chooses that Last option in question one, I'm going to hurt them.

[Ed Kolis]

Hey, at school, Z is automatically mapped to the network share that stores everyone's profiles. Incidentally, there's no sort of security whatsoever on the folders, so I can access "My Documents" the long way by going to z:\koliset\my documents, but I can also access someone else's documents by going to something like z:\fryje\my documents! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[dbt1949]

I have one hard drive per PC(I have 3). I also have a 60 gig usb external HD that I swap between the pc's.So it's letter varies.
Two of the PC's are notebooks so I don't have them all networks together.
I also just got one of those little usb 256 meg flash drives that works pretty well.

[DeadZone]

Does this include virtual drives?
Cos I have like 6 VDs
a: Floppy
c: programs hdd (18Gig)
d: cd drive
e: system hdd (6Gig)
f: backup hdd (12Gig)
(e & f are partitions on same physical hdd)
g-l: virtual drives

Orginally it came wit
a: floppy
c: only hdd
d: cd-rw drive

needless to say I have changed it abit http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

[ColdSteel]

I have 2 hard drives in a raid 0 config (1 logical drive). That's partitioned as C:, D:, E:

My DVD-ROM is R:
My CD-RW is S:

I always make the non-hard drive device letters higher up in the alphabet so that if I expand my system with new hard drives, the automapping of hard drive letters that Windows does will not screw up my previous installs by grabbing the CD drive letters and using them. Plus it allows my USB thumb drive to drop in nicely as F: when it's plugged in.

Apparently this could be the problem with Starfury. The CD check appears possibly not to check drive letters any higher up than J: and therefore will never see the CD in either one of my drives. My old PC's drive letters are mapped out the same way, so it doesn't work there either. I hope MM just removes the CD check so those with us with this problem can play the game already. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

-ColdSteel

[David E. Gervais]

Ok, here's my bit of wisdom about my drive configuration..

A: 3.5" Floppy Disk (standard unit)
C: 5 gig HD (Boot drive Win XP Home)
D: 12.5 gig HD (Main work drive)
E: 12.5 gig (This is where my games go.)
F: 16x48x24x48 DVD/CDRW drive.

I find this drive layout/use to be ideal for my needs. The big advantage to having this config is that if things go bad in windows I can reformat and install drive C: without risking any of my precious data. Drive C: ONLY has Windows and the small support files like Winzip, ACDSee, and other 'small' utilities. (I can reformat and re-install everything on C: in about 1 hour.)

Drive D: gets regular backups, and E: only has games and I do not need backups (unless I get really atached to a savegame. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif and even then, I just need to copy it over to D: )

F: is my latest purchase, and I find it to be working really really well. This all-in-one unit is definately a recomended component.

Nuf said, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Instar]

A: 3.5 Floppy
C: 80 gig HD
D: Plextor CD writer
E: DVD drive
F: RAID drive
G: 128 MB USB key drive
H: Network drive
I: Network drive
N: Network drive

[Warspite]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
Ok, here's my bit of wisdom about my drive configuration..

A: 3.5" Floppy Disk (standard unit)
C: 5 gig HD (Boot drive Win XP Home)
D: 12.5 gig HD (Main work drive)
E: 12.5 gig (This is where my games go.)
F: 16x48x24x48 DVD/CDRW drive.

I find this drive layout/use to be ideal for my needs. The big advantage to having this config is that if things go bad in windows I can reformat and install drive C: without risking any of my precious data. Drive C: ONLY has Windows and the small support files like Winzip, ACDSee, and other 'small' utilities. (I can reformat and re-install everything on C: in about 1 hour.)

Drive D: gets regular backups, and E: only has games and I do not need backups (unless I get really atached to a savegame. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif and even then, I just need to copy it over to D: )

F: is my latest purchase, and I find it to be working really really well. This all-in-one unit is definately a recomended component.

Nuf said, Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This is the same way I had setup my 30GB, one 5 for XP and two 12.5 for other things. Its a great way to be able to freely format and reinstall a damaged windows copy. Not to mention partitions like this will speed up your computer. Its almost like having 3 seperate drives http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Fyron]

I have a hard drive partitioned as T and X, a hard drive partitioned as C and D, a DVD-ROM drive (F), a CDR-RW drive (E), and how ever many virtual drives I need at any given moment. Does that count? I did have to select that (seriously...) Category. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Captain Kwok]

I like to keep things simple, C: for HD, D: for DVD, and E: for CD-RW.

[Executron]

*no floppy*(too useless and didn't look good with my Cheiftec case http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif )
C - 15 Gb Windows XP partition
E - 15 Gb Mp3 Partition
F - 5 Gb Second installation of XP
G - 30 Gb games partition
H - 30 Gb movie partition
J - 8 Gb Malfador (SE4, Starfury(mods, shipsets and lots of thingys http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif ) partition
K - 15 Gb Programs and Downloads partition
L - 40 Gb Kit Partition, CD Images
partiotion number for a total of
80 + 80 Gb RAID 0

D - LG CD-RW 12x-8x-32x (black)
I - Creative DVD-ROM (black)
M - TEAC CD-RW 52x-24x-52x (black)

Thats about all... My hole computer is black and build entirely by me http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[ October 29, 2003, 06:45: Message edited by: Executron ]

[Schwarzbart]

My Computer came already using letter L and now I addetional use 4 Virtual Dirves.

C-E HD
F DVD ROM
G DVD RW
H-K Excangable Media (like Memory Stick ect.)
L-O Virtual Drive
P DVD RW (same as G)

[David E. Gervais]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I like to keep things simple, C: for HD, D: for DVD, and E: for CD-RW. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Just one partition for the HD? Wow, you like to live dangerously don't you?

Personally I learnt the hard way that is is much better/safer to have Windows on it's own partition (5 gig works well for me) and everything else on one or more other partitions.

I really hope your HD never crashes, if it ever does, believe me, I can feel your pain.

Cheers! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[Phoenix-D]

Umm, Dave, if his HD crashes its likely to take out the whole thing, paritions and all.

Now, windows crashes could be a different story.

[David E. Gervais]

I'm talking about windows crashes, they are much more common than a true HD crash.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[DeadZone]

Kwok already had a hdd crash, thats how his SE:IV mod died

[spacerat]

i have to P drives...yea..i got a lot...


800 gb of 8 meg Cache space total
2 dvd writes
dvd ram
external cdwr
external HD

and some otehr stuff...

[DimmurWyrd]

hmmm, very simple system

a: floppy (does it still work?)
c: 200G HD - runtime files
d: 200G HD - backup and temporary storage.
e: DVDRW
f: virtual drive.

[Will]

I haven't gotten around to doing any partitioning yet... thus far, it is:

A: 3.5" floppy
C: 40GB HDD
D: CD-ROM
E: DVD+/-RW
F: SmartCard
G: CompactFlash

... B: would be reserved for the 5.25" floppy if I ever was insane enough to find a reason to search for and install one. I'm probably going to be getting an extra HDD or so in a few months, and possibly replace the 3.5" floppy with a ZIP (or hey, why not have both? Seems a bit of a waste to not use a FDD that has survived ten years and four different computers).

[Wardad]

A: 3.5" floppy
C: 5GB System Partition
D: 20GB Program and Data Partition
E: CD 72X Kenwood True X (reads 7 tracks at a time)
F: DVD Player
G: CDR Lite-On 48x

After 4 years Win98 crashed. I think my privacy program attacked my security program.
I took the advice of some members on this board and created a seperate partition for the operating system.
Now if I have to, I can reformat drive C: and reload windows, without losing my games and data on drive D:.

[ November 24, 2003, 18:46: Message edited by: Wardad ]

[dHay]

It depends on what you are using the system for.
(Says me with 50+ computers... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif )

Any CDROM, DVD, USB key, etc, can only take one letter, and it just depends on how many you want.

Partitioning up a HD can be questionable. Depends on your budget, IDE slots, etc.

Performance? One partition to the drive. Possibly multiple drives to the partition. (Can you say RAID?)
Experiment: Try copying a file from one drive letter to the other.
Results:
1. Two hard drives, very fast.
2. One hard drive, two partitions, much slower.

You get killed by the head seek from one partition to the other.

If you aren't backing up your data, you didn't want it anyway. Backup does not have to be a "backup" device. Could just be a second HD. Or CDR, DVDR, etc.
Disk drives are cheap enough now, that not backing up to another drive is, umm, not so smart. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Disk drives are cheap enough that tape drive manufacturers are in trouble. A 200G LTO tape drive costs more than 10 times the space in HDs.
Plus tapes.

[Wydom@ker]

Here's what I've ended up with:
A: Floppy
C: [7.79GB] Win2K sp2 (Development install)
D: [12.6GB] Dev Apps
E: [7.79GB] Win2K sp4 (General Install)
F: [2.91GB] Special (Freelancer) tempermental ****
G: [12.6GB] Gen Apps
H: [19.9GB] Games
I: [10.5GB] Downloads
J: [256MB] USB MP3 player - when plugged in
K: [120GB] Storage
W: Virtual DVD/CD
X: Virtual DVD/CD
Y: DVD-RW
Z: DVD

Plus I also have 5 Virtual PCs covering NT/Win98/2K/XP os.

And much of this came about due to Windows crashes, and trying to protect my stuff from these crashes. I lost a near complete ship mod for Freelancer - all I can say is - Backup, Backup, Backup!

[ November 24, 2003, 21:38: Message edited by: Wydom@ker ]

[Instar]

Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
I'm talking about windows crashes, they are much more common than a true HD crash.

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ya, get a RAID going like me. My mobo has a built in controller so I found two old 4 gig drives and made a RAID 0 array.

What I cant wait for is when I get my new system with 2 10000 RPM SATA drives in a RAID 0 setup... read write speeds are in excess of 150 mb/s.
Ooooooooooh ya

[Stone-D]

Here's mine, after years of tweaking :

A: Floppy (Duh). Rarely used, only there for absolute emergencies.
C: DOS, Win98se, WinXP, Win2k3, Program Files(1).
D: Games.
E: Data. Work, gfx, code, etc.
F: Media. Video, MP3s, soundz.
G: Archives. Interim backups of downloads, source files for windows installations.
H: CDROM.

D is a seperate 20 gig drive. The rest (C, E, F, G) is one 40 gig drive, part'd. D also hosts a copy of Gentoo linux. If you're wondering about how I got a seperate drive to be 'D' on win98se and DOS, search google for 'Letter Assigner'. Free, does wonders and absolutely safe. Been using it for over two years. Not a plug, lost contact with the author.

"Ah, you loser, yur gunna loze everything in a HD crash!!111"

No, won't. I've got some experience in data recovery and have restored my partition table(2) three times so far. Windows has crashed many maaaany times, but I'm safe from that(3).

(1) Yes, it's doable. No, I'm not lying.
(2) Norton Utilities. NDD.EXE. "NDD.EXE /REBUILD". Does wonders. Diskedit is excellent for a fallback. FYI, Norton is not 'safe' from Systemworks 2001 onwards.
(3) I winzip the windows directories and shove that in G. Yes, WINZIP. Right-click C:\WIN98SE (for example), 'Add to Win98SE.zip'. Rename to Win98SE!.zip. If your windows fubars, just extract to C:\WIN98SE! and reboot to DOS. Now, DELTREE WIN98SE and rename WIN98SE! to WIN98SE. Done. My 'safe' backup sizes at a 63 meg zip file. Oh, not fun with NT OSes, which is why I don't truck with them much.

Erk. On modem. Me go. Yes, that's why the wierd lingo. Cya.