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Lerxst · 01-17-2002, 08:23 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by FuBarGrn:
Damn!!! I knew getting those Dual 40 gig HD's would come in handy SOMEDAY!!!!!

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Git! I would love to get another 40GB HDD and utilise the raid function. Yes I would

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kyee7k:
why partition your 8 GB hdd into 4 2gb portions when you could have one 8 GB partition?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

In the days before rewritable media the only (cheap) way to keep data when (and I mean when) the OS crashed and brought down your drive was to partition the HD. To date I have reinstalled several OS's several times over and thank myself several times over.

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Lerxst is Offline Junior Member Posts: 11 Join Date: Jan 2002	01-17-2002, 08:23 AM <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by FuBarGrn: Damn!!! I knew getting those Dual 40 gig HD's would come in handy SOMEDAY!!!!! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Git! I would love to get another 40GB HDD and utilise the raid function. Yes I would <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by kyee7k: why partition your 8 GB hdd into 4 2gb portions when you could have one 8 GB partition?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> In the days before rewritable media the only (cheap) way to keep data when (and I mean when) the OS crashed and brought down your drive was to partition the HD. To date I have reinstalled several OS's several times over and thank myself several times over.