My computer crashed. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif I had to re format the harddrive, and it deleted all 262 MP3's. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif Then to make a worse, I couldnt d/l drivers for 2 days, and to make it even worse, I cant d/l my Audio driver. That sucks. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif But at least there is no errors on my hardrive. Screw Bill Gates and Gateway for not sending me a new fuckin restoration CD.

Oh you stupid stupid little boy... have you never heard of partitioning....??? sheesh... Now go blame Bill Gates for not beaming the nessesary computing knowledge directly into your brain when you got your computer!

Beh... be gone now. You're starting to attract the flies.

(The all new nastier Mule....)
(soon to be replaced with the Ultimate Mule of dejection and misery...)
(well maybe http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif)

That'll teach you for not backing up.

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MP3 Resource Centre

Why the hell do all of you always reformat WHOLE partition ? Just delete "c:\windows" and "c:\program files", install windoze and everything will run smooth again (for a few hours).

Well my hard drive was too loaded to partition. But even if I backed things up, I would still be without my mp3's. But now i cant dl winamp whats up wit dat

Too loaded to partition???? Hmmm if that was the case then your system must have been running like dog meat with no swap file, temp space etc...

Or is it that you have just never heard of Partition Magic and other such utils that will let you partition your HDD without losing any of the data on it... well now you have so no excuses! Just to add insult to injury PM will run of a couple of floppies so really...no room needed!

A biased example of partitioning....

C: Windows drive (500Mb)
D: Data Drive (2Gb)
E: Swap Drive (200Mb)
F: Games Drive (2Gb)
G: Drivers Drive (100Mb)
H: Encrypted Data Drive (300Mb)
I: MP3 Drive (5Gb)

In reality your Swap drive should be on a deperate physical HDD altogether...but beh.. you do what you can..

Also I have my Program Files and Documents Settings in my Data drive... purely for convienience so as not to lose all those skins, plugins etc. Not the tidiest solution but it works.

And last but not least...to save you having to reformat..reinstall etc etc etc etc... IMAGE your partitions!!!!! Save yourself one hell of a hassle later on!

Mule

'scuse me? You don't need 500 megs for windows, when you have 98lite. Ever since I found this prog I've been plugging it b/c I can now get windows installed in under 50 megs... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Now, I, personally, couldn't deal with that many drive letters, but whatever works...

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Why did you just not install windows in another directory for example. c:\test\windows\ and you would have saved all your mp3s. After the installation you could have manually removed the old windows files. Works great.


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Eyekancpell:
My computer crashed. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif I had to re format the harddrive, and it deleted all 262 MP3's. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif Then to make a worse, I couldnt d/l drivers for 2 days, and to make it even worse, I cant d/l my Audio driver. That sucks. http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/mad.gif But at least there is no errors on my hardrive. Screw Bill Gates and Gateway for not sending me a new fuckin restoration CD.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I just bought a second HDD. The only thing on it now is Icewind Dale, but I will put Windows one one and files on the other. When I get round to it. Sometime soon. Who am I kidding?

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by ReDVsion:
'scuse me? You don't need 500 megs for windows

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My win folder is 1.6GB. Any ideas, Red?


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Ocelot312

1.6 gigs?! Damn... Mine's only 379 megs. And I'm running Win98SE...

About all this partitioning crap..... I've got two hard drives. One (c, the master HDD)has Windows and all the necessary accompanying files. The other (d, the slave) has all my kewl appz, music, and other multimedia files. Each has a whole disk partition, so my Control Panel won't get flooded with drive letters. This way I won't lose all my stuff if Windows kicks the bucket. I've got all my stuff backed up on cds anyway.

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I run SE too. I think I have so much crap b/c my comp. came w/the OS installed and no disks. Therefore, I have an assload of cabs. I'd reformat, but this is a shared machine, destined to be bloated until it crashes.

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Ocelot312

Partitioning - everyone wants to do it differantly, I got a 4Gb system partition - and 2.5 of em are used- scary - but I would recommend at least a windows partiton, a data one, and a bakup one - use Norton Ghost and put an image of a fresh install onto the backup partition for instant cleanups. also, although putting your swap file on a seperate physical drive is a damn good idea, if your putting it on a seperate partition - make it a dedicated swap partion so it doesnt get fragmented. Also obviously make sure it's not physically far away from your windows partition, otherwise the performance you gain by not having the swapfile in a fragmented place will be lost as stuff will have to move miles back and forward to and from it - that's me done inflcting my ways onto you and patronising everyone - sorry

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I'm running winME and my Windows dir is 5.6 gig http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Then again, I also have all my mp3s under the Desktop folder..........

Sarge you shouldn't have your two hard drives on the same ide channel unless you have a burner or something on the other.

With a burner you want to keep the data to be burnt on a seperate channel, thus best idea is to keep a swap file partition and a dedicated burning partition on your primary hdd, and have your burner as a slave on the secondary ide port.

When all is said and done.... better just get scsi 160... http://forums.winamp.com/ubb/smile.gif