Inexperience

[go-baby-go]

I realize that I am one of the least experienced computer jockey’s of PcTechTalk (that’s why I’m here...lol). This story I’m about to relate will prolly have most of you rolling your eyes but here goes…
I took Cirga’s advice and partitioned off my OS (I gave it lot’s of elbow room, 10 gigs), with visions of installing all of my apps on a different partition (I set aside another 10 gigs for this purpose...elbow room, ya know).
Well… here’s a lesson learned.
Do not install your programs to an empty partition without putting some sub-folders in place first. Or you’ll end up with a mess of files, all in alphabetical order (it was ghastly) strewn all throughout the partition (th-th-they were all mixed up, the HORROR the HORROR)
So the moral is … forethought is a good thing, place your folders and sub-folders in the drive you are installing to first, so you have a target for your programs and waaa-laaa everything is neat-O

[DreamCaster]

Ahh yes...sub-structure is good

Alot of my partitions are disasters as well (I currently have eleven + my two rom drives)
Thank god there's a search feature or I'd be screwed

Maybe someone could write up a how-to for logical structure and easy system recovery? *hint*

[Cirga]

No worries mate.. I have done the same thing. Its all about getting used to how the partitioning works out.. and what best works froy ou. I actually had to go through my three partitions and organize everything.. because I had so much stuff I couldnt find anything I was looking for.. and I tell ya.. I found some old programs that I never even remember lol.

Lesson learned for me too

[rastagard]

I may have the messiest workstation, but my drives are as neat as a pin........

I don't have my OS and my Program Files on seperate partitions. I have an extra HDD dedicated to a clone copy of that partition so I guess there is no need.

My D:/ drive is My Documents. This is my original from way back, so it is not the "My Documents" that XP tries to put everything into. But I always just navigate to it myself. In here I have all the typical folders. The main one I use is Misc. Documents. This is my junk drawer. It is broken up into numerous sub folders. If I find myself gathering too many of a certain type of file (i.e. gifs, funny pics, etc.) I will make a folder and shove everything into it, but more important, I will put all new files in there as well.


My E:/ drive is downloads, my F:/ drive is music and my G:/ drive is Setups. Whenever I download, unzip or aquire any program, I create a Folder with the program name and all versions past and present go into that folder. I always can find my latest version easily this way.

I may not be able to find a CD, DVD or even a pencil at my desk, but ask me for any file or folder on my computer and I'll have it for ya in 30 seconds or less.

[pinoyskull]

I have a 40GB and 20GB Harddrive

40GB's Partition

C (2GB) = Win2K (no program files)
E (10GB) = Program Files (i have lots of installed programs)
F (800MB) = Temp (windows temp, internet cache, etc...)
G (rest) = DATA (my documents, videos, mp3s, pdfs, etc...)

20GB
H (no partition) = downloaded files from kazaa, emule, bittorrent

D is my CDRW
I is my Virtual CDROM


so far my system is running on a tiptop shape with that configuration

[blackspawn]

I have everything in the same partition (30 GB) and never had problems just need to be very thourough were I install things, do clean ups once and in awhile and have everything organized in folders (Program Files, Games, Downloads etc.)

Has worked fine for me.

[igalan]

The same as blackspawn here . One single partition for the 40 GB HDD. I have the default folder to install programs, and a folder called "C:\Juegos" (< Games) to install games. I just need to back up everything in "C:\Documents and Settings" and a few more files (like stats of eMule, and some config files not stored there).

Before I had three partitions, but it was a mess. Now I carefully install and uninstall programs (I use Norton Clean Sweep) and it's much much better for me .

[pinoyskull]

nice thing about my config is that drive C (which is the windows drive) does not becomes fragmented all the time because the program files and the temp files are located in different directory, that way your windows will run smoothly, I only defrag drive C once a month and the other drives at least once in every 2 weeks

[blackspawn]

Jeezz you probably are always installing and uninstalling hun?

I mean I only defrag my drive every 2 months (sometimes less but mostly every 2 months). And the fragmentation level never rises above 10/15% (when I start noticing a certain slowdown... then I defrag).
But to defrag every 2 weeks???

[pinoyskull]

blackspawn,

im always trying different softwares, divx conversion to vcd, that's why there's fragmentation