How do you organize your files????

[jinsta]

Hey Guys,

I am working on partitioning and organizing my hard drive. Its only 60GB, but i am having trouble decieding how i want to organize it. I'm sure everyone has their own way that they are conftorable with, but i'm just looking for some examples so i can begin to work on my own.

How many partitions do you have? What is on each partition? Do you store your music and documents under "My Documents" (If using Windows)? Do you install all of your programs on a separate partition from your OS partition? How big is each partition? Do you keep most of your files .zip or in some other archived format? Any other comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks guys!

~jinsta

[OuTpaTienT]

I only have one of my four hard drives partitioned into more than one logical drive.

[elroy]

What OS are you using?

I have a 160gb drive partitioned into 3 parts. 25gb for the OS, 97gb for storage and the rest in another storage partition. I try to store as little as possible in the OS part. This way if Windows goes south on me I have very little data that needs moved or salvaged. I erase the OS part and re-install Windows. While all of my files and downloads etc are safe on the 2nd part. Just my way of doing it.

[jinsta]

I am using Windows XP Home currently. I have a "borrowed" copy of XP Pro...but I will most likely keep Home on, as i like to keep up with my updates.

I just had a friend suggest to me, that i partition 5-10GB for my Windows XP partition, 20GB For Applications, and the rest for Backup and Document/Image/Music stoarge. Sounds logical to me...i can't think of any other way to do it...

Let me know what you think. Thanks.

~Jinsta

[OuTpaTienT]

That sounds fine. But I'd definitely give Windows a little more breathing room than 5GB. 10GB should be plenty.

[tgxiii]

I used to have 5 gigs partitioned for Windows, but I started getting low disk space notifications. I found 10 gigs to work best.

[jinsta]

Yeah, your probably right about upping the size to 10GBs...i'll get right to that once i leave work!

Thanks for the help.

[Scott Tiger]

I used to think youd have to be nuts not to partition your disks but with tools like the SUSE live eval disk and knoppix I don't bother anymore.

I am really anal about making sure everything saves into my "My Documents" folder though. I know that "Local Setting -> Application Data" is the accepted M$ standard but I find that a bit clumsy. I just make subfolders for each type of program. It makes things easier to find in case of a disaster.

[HeadBand]

i have a 100 gig drive i give 20 gig NTFS to windows and a few other programs (open office; visual basic; ad-aware; avg)ten i have like 12 gigs for linux and 750 meg for my swap file then i have the rest in a fat 32 partiton for my files between linux and windows and some more windows apps

[Gettinbye]

I have 16 partitions (242gb hdd space)...4 partitions for O/S's on the IDE-0 master 80g HDD (multi-boot-all C: ), 11 partitions for storage on the IDE-1 master 160g HDD, 1 partition for swap file on the IDE-1 slave 2g HDD.
I use X-Setup to set the path for "My Document" to the first partition on the IDE-1 HDD, so if I need to reformat an O/S partition I don't lose any current work (also to share My Documents with all four O/S's).
C: Win 98 5g
C: Win XP Home 14.9g
C: Win XP Pro 37.9g
C: Empty at present (about to install mandrake) 20.5g
D: TO SORT (includes My Documents folder) 19.5g
E: STORAGE (drivers, apps, ect...) 43.9g
F: MISC 4.87g
G: FUNNY STUFF 9.75g
H: GAMES 14.6g
I: MUSIC 9.75g
J: VIDS&VISUAL 4.87g
K: MOVIES 14.6g
L: DRVIMGPQIS (drive images for fast O/S recovery) 14.6g
M: EDITING (editing video clips and pics) 5.84g
N: DOWNLOADS (default download dir-no active .exe's allowed here) 10g
O: SWAP FILE 2g