A, B, C, D, E, F, G, ... Partition!!!

[J-Fire_Man 0]

Hmm....I often partitioning my HD. I heard that if I paratitioned my HD so often, it will damage my HD. Is it true? or just a lie? I don't want to lose all of my data just because partitioning.

[chickendippers 1]

It sounds unlikely, Partitioning is really just a virtual thing, and shouldn't do any damage. If you alter the partitions all the time though that might do damage as there's a alot of activity going on.

 

But it's like defragging your computer all the time, that'll apparantly do more damage to the hardware than good to operating speeds.

[Luk3us 63]

Your just making logical drives. Its software based. I don't see how it can possibly affect the actual hard-drive. So I agree with chickendippers.

[J-Fire_Man 0]

Geez....I heard this bull**** from someone. By the way, I use Partition Magic to do this job. So, looks like I will still do some more partitioning. Thanks anyway.

[Saracen 16]

You're not thinking along the lines of Hard Disk Formatting are you? Because I learned in my computer science A-level course, (and indeed this is probably me where you've heard it from) that formatting a Hard Disk too many times can cause irrepairable damage to the hard disk.

 

As far as partitioning goes it will not damage the hard disk at all cos as the guys said, it's software based.

 

Although I don't recommend having too many partitions. I'd say no more than 2 partitioned drives in my opinion. Since the File Allocation Tables (what you know as FAT32) take up extra hard disk space to accomodate the settings for the virtual drive. Unless you have a nice 120GB+ hard disk of course :wink:

[J-Fire_Man 0]

and indeed this is probably me where you've heard it from.

Naa....not from you

 

Although I don't recommend having too many partitions. I'd say no more than 2 partitioned drives in my opinion. Since the File Allocation Tables (what you know as FAT32) take up extra hard disk space to accomodate the settings for the virtual drive. Unless you have a nice 120GB+ hard disk of course :wink:

Hmm' date=' I have 4 partition in my HDs and I used 2 HDs. First is a 40 Gb HD, and the second is this stupid 3 Gb HD. I guess I must remove one. And by the way, I only partitioning HD, not fomating it.[/quote']