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Subject: Re: Should an 80 gig Harddrive be partitioned for Chessbase usage?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 07:40:47 11/09/02

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On November 09, 2002 at 03:46:47, van baker wrote:

>10 gigs  doesnt seem like that much, why not try? um 45/20/15? Youd have an
>extra partition, Personally I dont think youd have to set a swap-file,(Im a win
>98 user yet)  and all the deleting and such wont create havoc with your windows
>installation just do all your chess from the 20! Maybe you wont use that 15 but
>its there Why dont people partition more at the start drives are so cheap
>nowadays I dont like p.magic personnally.. Good luck though, eh?

Well the problem with your 45/20/15 is if he ever wanted to use FAT32 on the 45
gig area there are going to be problems. The volume size max. limit for FAT32 is
32 gigs. I have had numerous problems going above that. If he is using NTFS then
there is no problem.

I agree that P.Magic is a great program but is not for everyone. I have had
almost zero luck with it. There seems to be some known issues relating to that
product and Maxtor hard drives.



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