Question about partititoning

[jibstar]

I have a new 500 GB hard drive, i've copied the contents of an existing hard drive onto it, but I wanted to know about partitioning in order for the hard drive to work faster.

If its possible, is having the OS and program files in one partition, and the images, music and videos in another? How do I go about doing this in Disk Management?

[EzyStvy]

You'll lose any data on the drive if you partition it...

Are you booting off of it or is it a second drive?

If it's a second drive, in diskmgmt you'd have to right click on delete the current partition. Then righ click and create new ones.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by jibstar I have a new 500 GB hard drive, i've copied the contents of an existing hard drive onto it, but I wanted to know about partitioning in order for the hard drive to work faster.

Partitioning a large hard drive into smaller logical drives doesn't make it work faster, it just let you organize it better.

Originally Posted by jibstar If its possible, is having the OS and program files in one partition, and the images, music and videos in another? How do I go about doing this in Disk Management?

If you want to do this with the data still on the hard drive you'll need a 3rd party partitioning tool like Partition Magic. Unless you didn't make the whole 500GB one large partition. Did you?

Cricket

[jibstar]

Unless you didn't make the whole 500GB one large partition. Did you?

Yes it is, Acronis True Image wouldn't let me alter the partitions, is that a bad thing?

[glc]

If you BOOT with the ATI CD and choose Clone Drive, you can set the target partition any size you want, as long as all the data can fit on it. You need to choose Expert mode to do that.

[Negeva]

Originally Posted by jibstar Yes it is, Acronis True Image wouldn't let me alter the partitions, is that a bad thing?

Always the Acronis Bootdisk to re-size partitions as it's generally the safest way.

As glc states you'll have to select the manual or expert mode.

When you have booted using the Acronis disk check the hdd or partitions properties to see if an error is returned; Acronis will refuse to resize any partition on a 'drity' hard-drive. If it shows an error boo into Windows and run a full disk scan.

[glc]

If it shows an error boo into Windows and run a full disk scan.

Or boot with the OS CD and use the console to run chkdsk /r.