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To: Kathryn Anshutz who wrote (12135)9/27/2000 9:24:27 PM
From: tanstfl  Read Replies (3) of 110652
 
Hi Kathryn,
If your thinking of partitioning the drive and don't want to reformat (and find the right drivers) you'll want something like partition magic. I usually make the C partiton less than 8192K so that I get 4k clusters which is most efficient for all the little files that make up the OS and Apps.

Since audio (mp3) and video files are generally quite large, you don't gain a lot by having 4k clusters, so I'd just make a second 20 Meg partition for that kind of stuff. I'm not sure what you'd gain by separating out financial files (and my documents), Most backup programs will let you save a backup by directory and those files aren't usually very large (ie wasteful of partitions with larege cluster sizes.

As always, have a good backup of your data before you try something like this (which I assume you do since it's a new computer).

steve
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