do you think i must partition a 120 GB sata drive. Is there any advantage to partioning?
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Well it depends on the purpose. You can definitely have a benifit of have the outer 20 GB as partition for faster access by using it for system files and applications.
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Yes, you will not have to worry about compatibility unless you were to pickup a laptop model instead of a standard desktop hard drive.  I would get a 7200rpm.  Personally I would recommend a Seagate Barracuda as they are known for being fairly quiet.  Save up enough money for the right size hard drive so you don't have to replace it in a year again.
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I use for that Acronis Disc Director Suite. It is not expensive and it can resize, move, copy, split, and merge partitions without losing your data. Besides that Disk Director has a number of useful features that will help you to reorganize the hard disk drive structure, optimize disk space usage and much more. You can learn more about Disk Director here: http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/diskdirectorsuite/
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you can partition it using partitioning softwares or if your using another hard drive with a WORKING OPERATING SYSTEM or with a bootable OS CD or a DOS diskette...\n\nPartition with a dos diskette \n\ntype FDISK > then just follow the instructions\n\nyoull be able to learn on your own then. \nwhen splitting.. USE percent for easier splitting.. coz youll be ask if how many MB youll be using. ex.50% for 2 partition. Then set an active drive for the last step...\n\nYOU can actually figure out the step by step procedures DURING the partitioning METHOD...\n\n\nWITH BOOTABLE CD -> JUST FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AND STEPS WHEN ASK...
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you would need to use partition magic as trying to do it yourself with a third party software you would end up deleting everything you on your Hard drive and loose all your data.\nor another suggestion would be buy a external USB hard drive and keep all your music and othe personal stuff on it.\nThis was you would increase your storage space and won't need to partition your exisiting drive and risk loosing your data.
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It depends on what you need.\n\nNTFS offers better security, file compression, quotas, and encryption.\n\nIf you're multi-booting with multiple OS'es, then you will have to format some volumes as FAT, since NTFS is typically not compatible with other operating systems.\n\nHere's some articles comparing and contrasting the two.\nhttp://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/expert/russel_october01.mspx\nhttp://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/ntfs/implFAT-c.html\nhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/2744/2744.html
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it depends on the machine itself, for home usage\ni would suggest the following\n1) Maxtor\n2) Western digital \n3) Seagate\nall have good warrenty, and i would suggest getting SATA rather than IDE for home usage.
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Please don't use partition magic. !!!\nThat is known to ruin your scenario.\n\nFirst of all, from my understandiing, you previously had 1 Harddrive and you partitioned it in 2 areas WHILE installing.\n\n- Okay, if you only have one harddrive in your pc, I recommend you to leave it that way, cause what if your computer doesn't work anymore(your windows/linux) messes up. You could always place your important files on the second harddrive and reformat the first hardrive if you ever need. That will reduce problems.\n\n- But assuming you still want to merge C and D, I recommend formatting both harddrives . Sorry mate, thats the only secure way. While reinstalling your operating system, you could have the option of making it partions (c and d or more) or leave it as one full hardrive (by deleting partition from d)\n\n- If you use partition magic, 3 out of 2 people fail. Partition Magic doesn't know pretty well how to retreat the harddrives, it will become slower. It is not simply saying to move the pointer of the 2nd hd to the 1st. They are completly different set of pointers. On the minimum case Partition Magic will work, but your taking risks.\n\nSo what do I recommend? Backup your files to somewhere, and restore them after your fresh install.\n\nOr you have two separate harddrives that you want to make into 1 big harddrive.\n- You need to use a Raid Controller to merge both harddrives into one big driver. Search for RAID5. And follow instructions there.
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this depends on your motherboard.  You should be able to do it, though.  Make sure you set windows up on the SATA drive before installing the others.
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You can't "make" a hard drive an SATA2 drive.  It either was SATA2 when you bought it, or it wasn't.  You're talking about RAID 0, which can be done with either SATA1 or SATA2 drives.\n\nRAID will make a definite difference in throughput, but those weren't fast drives to begin with.  I'd recommend you spend $95 on a drive that's almost 3 times as big, and roughly 3x as fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140  Then, just use the Maxtor as either a spare drive, or as additionaly storage space.
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The change I would make is to upgrade the hard drive. You can get 160 gig hard drives for $75 or less. You can never have too much hard drive space.
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Do you mean partition?\nRead up on the program fdisk.exe\nYou gotta be careful with this, but it does work.
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Sure, I run 3 SATA drives and 2 PATA drives, no problemo. Needless to say, your motherboard must have a SATA port on it or you need to buy some sort of controller.
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from the specs of your motherboard, i think you can connect only one more IDE or SATA drive. take a look at the specs below. you are equipped with 1 SATA and 1 IDE port on the MB. That means you can have only one more disk (either IDE or SATA), since you already have 3 devices connected.\n\n......edit edit.....\nit seems the specs stated on the site and as shown on the image are not the same. the website states 2 SATA and 2 IDE ports. That means you can have upto 8 drives. So you can attach around 5 more. Plenty of space on the motherboard. You might have to upgrade your  cabinet though.\n......edit edit.....
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You'll need a disk management program that is capable of repartitioning the drive on-the-fly. PartitionMagic from Symantec is one such product, but there are many others.
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no, it's not worth. the difference between IDE (ATA-6) and SATA is that little, so you wouldn't see any performance improvement.
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NTFS is a better option . dont stop