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My NC10 arrived about 25 minutes ago… yayay!!
I’m going through setup, and don’t know what to do about the partitions. Should I leave them as is, change the size? I know I get to do this ONCE… so I want to do it right. I don’t plan on using another OS on it.
I’ve searched these forums, and looked elsewhere, and I’m not sure what I should do.
Suggestions/advice, please? I guess if no one is online, I’m going to… I don’t know what I’m going to do! 🙂
Thank you!!
it really depends on what or how much you will install mine is set at 50g/100g or therabouts. to be honest if your using the xp and dont plan to install vista, and your only going to load a few apps on there you could go quite low but really c drive at 30gb minimum is recommended as xp uses the c drive for paging file and virtual memory. imho 30 gb to whatever you desire is cool. there are tools and software that will actually allow you to resize at a later date,
some may say even 30gb is too much as ssds at 8gb fit xp ok, but defragmented files on a hard drive will increase in frequency the smaller the partition is thats allocated to the op system drive.
Also consider how much you will store i.e photos music videos, if its nominal then you could 50/50 split but at the end of the day you will still have access to the lot (minus the hidden 6gb partition for recovery)
Also as a note its best to store all your personal files i.e photos documents on the d drive, as well as any samsung recovery points you create as then in the event that the xp becomes corrupted when you use recovery software you will not lose any of your personal files as they will be safe on drive d (unless drive suffers severe hardware failure.
I couldn’t work out what to do so I set D to 0. This means that I just have C and the hidden system backup partition. I use the Samsung back up utility to back everything up to an external hard drive. So if everything goes pear shaped I can go to a restore point.
Keeping it simple!
Martin
Martin: I did exactly the same when i got my NC10, i.e keeping the hidden partition if I ever need to reinstall the OS fresh, the rest on the C: drive one big partition (no D: partition)
I set C: at 10gb for XP itself, D: at 30gb for applications and the odd game, E: at whatever space is leftover for downloads and general storage (around ~105gb), and F: at ~4gb for the page file.
I went half/half same as i did on my Sammy R60+ don’t see is too much of an issue as can use the space from either drive and D: drive can be used for personal files so if o/s goes boobs up then a reload wont lose files on D:
Kirk
I think I went approx 20GB for Xp and the rest for a data partition leaving the 6GB hidden partition in place for a factory restore if required. I turned off the page file since I installed 2GB RAM; the page file isn’t really necessary on a machine like this running XP – that was more when XP was initially released and a lot of PCs were only running 256MB RAM. If you do go with a Pagefile though, you would probably get more benefit from leaving it on the C drive though where it is physically close to the system and program files so the HD has less work swapping between the two – moving to a separate partition on the same physical drive will have no performance benefit whatsoever and may actually give your HD a little more work to do.
I made 3 partitions.
1. Recovery (6gb)
2. Windows + Program Files (40gb)
3. Documents + Data (downloads etc.) (114gb)Why? Because planned to not install as much apps as on my other PC. This NC10 is just a typewriter/internet/email machine. 40 gigs is more than enough. Rest (114gb) was just free, so i made a docments and data paritition on that one.
OK, so I got my NC10 yesterday, and set the C to 44, the D to 100 and left the recovery alone at 6 (hum, this only adds up to 150 wtf?).
The question is, how do I move the XP’s default “My Documents” folder (with Music Pictures, etc) to the new D drive. Dragging it only created a shortcut.
The reason that only adds up to 150gb is because that is the formatted size of the hard disk. 160gb is the size before it is formatted.
To change the location of my documents right click on “My Documents” go to “Properties”. Got to “target” tab and click “move”. Select new location and press ok.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I can find no “Target” tab going that route. Also checked my desktop and can’t see a “Target” tab there, either. Any other ideas?
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To change the location of my documents right click on “My Documents” go to “Properties”. Got to “target” tab and click “move”. Select new location and press ok.Hope that helps.
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OK, I didn’t read this exactly right. I was clicking on the “My Documents” folder itself, not on the “My Documents” icon within the “Start Menu.” Doing that, it worked just as you said. Thank you!Also, in case anyone else is interested, I was able to shift the “Shared Documents” to the “D drive” using the below method:
All is not lost whatever initial partition sizes are chosen. Some time ago I was running out of C drive space on my Vaio. I paid a small amount to download a copy of Paragon Partition Manager and it adjusted the partition sizes on both the Vaio & later the desktop flawlessly. I have already installed it on the NC10 just in case.
At one time it was just Vaio’s that had a C & a D drive on the one hard drive but I got used to it and it makes sense in many ways.
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This is my first post. Just ordered my NC10 yesterday. Not sure I’m reading interpreting this right, but according to the posts on this thread, when you boot the NC10 for the first time you are given an option on partitioning the hard drive? Is this correct or are posts referring to a fresh install of XP. Thanks[quote1227895379=shawnee3]
Hi
This is my first post. Just ordered my NC10 yesterday. Not sure I’m reading interpreting this right, but according to the posts on this thread, when you boot the NC10 for the first time you are given an option on partitioning the hard drive? Is this correct or are posts referring to a fresh install of XP. Thanks
[/quote1227895379]When you boot for the first time, yes it does ask you how you want to partition the drives… and this post is not referring to a fresh install of XP
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