I was thinking about this the other day in that if your HD crashes,
the recovery and archive partitions would be lost as well? If you'll
going to archive anything, best do it to an external source.

How do you partition a HD? Haven't done so before because my previous
drives were too small to even bother. Can you exactly allot the amount
of space for each partition?  I figure might as well plan ahead in
case the worst happens and my only access to the net goes to hell with
it.The manuals that came with my computer doesn't help in explaining
it other than to physically replacing the HD.

My current HD is partitioned into 2 drives.. the main system and the
recovery. If I'm successful in partitioning a new drive, do I
re-install the OS ( I'm assuming you have to option to pick and choose
which partition you would want it to install it in) first and can I
also restore the recovery portion from my backup discs by copying them
to that allot space?


I'm probably asking these questions in that I had a minor boot up
problem with Vista just now in which after I input the password log on
screen, the Welcome screen then just hangs with no drive activity. I
had to force a manual shutdown and it rebooted more successfully the
2nd time. I run health scans regularity and keep everything updated. I
had not install any new software or updates in my prior session.
Should I take it as a sign of impending doom for my computer or chuck
it up to another one of those quirky behaviors Windows pops up from
time to time? I believe this is the 2nd time it happened over the past
few months.







--- In 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com, "Don Fielder"
<jackdanuls@...> wrote:
>
> Most PC's that you buy from a retailer now have 2 partitions.  One
is the system partition, and the other is a restore partition.  This
eliminates the need to dig out a bunch of cd's to restore your system
to its factory default settings.  I think this may be what your
experiencing with this system.
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Raven Stormbringer
>   To: 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 1:17 AM
>   Subject: Re: [4EmulatorsandRoms] Re: Just Wondering
>
>
>         Well, you are probably never going to see the full gig-age
on an HD due to formatting. The formatting itself takes up some
space... and depending on the type of formatting (generally FAT or
NTFS) it works in chunks. If only a protion of a chunk is used... the
rest is left empty, wasted. This is why defragging is so important
even on a mostly empty drive if you do a lot or read-write to it.
>
>         And as I see someone else mentioned, it is quite common to
put your OS on a small partition and leave the other as a storage
drive of sorts. I don't usually see them split down the middle that
way, but then again... this is a WalMart special and I'm sorry, but
I'm no fan of WallyWorld ('course they likely had nothing to do with
it, it's more likely an Acer decision but a silly one from my point of
view).
>         It was likely done to allow maximum "idiot-proof" room for
the default OS folders. You know the "My Pictures", "My Music"
stuff... so someone doesn't have to learn to look somewhere else on
their computer... it's all nicely tucked (automatically!) into cute
little folders labelled for what they are and already affiliated to
the programs that use them.
>
>         But yea, having a partition can be a very good thing if used
for that usefulness. Store the OS on a smaller partition, in case you
need to reinstall it... it won't affect the rest of your "stuff".
>
>         Raven
>         (p.s. I thought Acer was a discount brand of one of the
larger companies... like an eMachines kinda brand)
>
>
>
>
>
>         --- On Sun, 11/30/08, Wclaring3 <wclaring3@...> wrote:
>
>           From: Wclaring3 <wclaring3@...>
>           Subject: Re: [4EmulatorsandRoms] Re: Just Wondering
>           To: 4EmulatorsandRoms@yahoogroups.com
>           Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 2:48 PM
>
>
>           Okay I guess this can be directed towards you or anyone
else that can answer. It came partitioned by one partition haveing
144gb space & the other 143gb it's saposed to have a 320gb hard drive.
What happened to the other 33gb & is a partitioned computer good or
bad? I'm not really knolegadble in this subject so any help is good.
>           Thanks
>           Wclaring
>
>
>           On 11/29/08, radams36 <yahoogroups36@ hotmail.com> wrote:
>             --- In 4EmulatorsandRoms@ yahoogroups. com, Wclaring3
<wclaring3@ .> wrote:
>             >
>             > Has anyone ever heard of a computer company called
*acer* before?
>             > Wclaring
>             >
>
>             Yes, Acer has been around for quite some time. They
bought out Texas
>             Instrument's laptop line some years back, and they
already had their
>             own line of laptops prior to that. My first color laptop
was an
>             AcerNote Light 361 (Pentium 120).
>
>             I'm typing this right now on an Acer, the Aspire 3680 -
pretty good
>             machine for a low-end priced unit. Think I paid $350 for
it, about 3
>             years ago - still going strong.
>
>             Anything in particular you need to know about them?
>
>             Richard