Can partitioning a disk reduce booting trouble?

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Please redirect me if I have stumbled on wrong Group.

Blue screen causes lot of trouble to me.

If I partition the primary disk into size sufficient for operating
system and rest of the size, would my troubles reduce?

Almost exclusibely my troubles are with win2k.

When disk has free space there is always temtation to put other things
on it. Thought by having nothing but OS on C: partition I may get out
of booting trouble to some extent.

Thanks.
 
Please redirect me if I have stumbled on wrong Group.

Blue screen causes lot of trouble to me.

If I partition the primary disk into size sufficient for operating
system and rest of the size, would my troubles reduce?

Almost exclusibely my troubles are with win2k.

When disk has free space there is always temtation to put other things
on it. Thought by having nothing but OS on C: partition I may get out
of booting trouble to some extent.
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No.
 
No, only identifying and resolving the cause of the problem, will stop
the booting trouble.
 
Recently bought a PC which came with Disk divided into 2 equal
partition. Thought that could be a way to solve my troubles to an
extent.
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Need to figure out the source you your system stops. How about posting the
Stop Error(s) listed on the blue screen?
 
Need to figure out the source you your system stops. How about posting the
Stop Error(s) listed on the blue screen?
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I am a kind of low level worjer in the game. I read out the error on
phone and get told to remove the disk which eventually gets formated
and freshly set up with OS.

I should have taken down the the long number of the error and 5/6
lines that appear below it.

Two things I remember, one is possibility of virus and another is look
into manual.

I am certainly going to copy the whole thing next time it appears on
next machine ( though how I wish it will never appear).

Regards,
DMJoshi
 
You need to research this on microsoft.com . There are limits such as
the boot partition needs to be within the first 2GB of the disk start
and partitions are limited in size, but I believe this might be a BIOS
imposed limit.
 
Recently bought a PC which came with Disk divided into 2 equal
partition. Thought that could be a way to solve my troubles to an
extent.
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If you right-click your "documents and settings" folder and transfer/move it
to the 2nd partition, together with mail storage folder and other important
things, it may make a reinstall less painful.
However, it will not solve that problem you didn't tell us about.
What does your event viewer tell, and have you disabled automatic reboot on
error to be able to get a clue out of the bluescreen?
 
If you right-click your "documents and settings" folder and transfer/move it
to the 2nd partition, together with mail storage folder and other important
things, it may make a reinstall less painful.
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Reinstall is always by formating the whole disk. So far on the primary
disks are without partition. It is planned that these disks as they go
in error will be resettup with partition, but if error appears, they
will get formated before resetup. Partitioning is looked at as an
option whereby error takes longer to reappear.
However, it will not solve that problem you didn't tell us about.
What does your event viewer tell, and have you disabled automatic reboot on
error to be able to get a clue out of the bluescreen?
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There is never automatic reboot. Error appears only when machine is
restarted or repowered.
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vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns
on mousepad. Partition scan in progress to remove offending
incompatible products. Reactivate MS software.
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Geoff Fitton said:
Where did you get that idea ?
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I believe you misunderstood. The poor guy is seriously lacking in basic
grammer skills. I think he meant to say "When I have reinstalled in the
past, I have always reformatted the whole disk." So he's asking if he should
partition the disk, so next time he only has to format the boot partition,
leaving the data partition intact.
 
Reinstall is always by formating the whole disk. So far on the primary
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Is it a policy you are talking about?
disks are without partition. It is planned that these disks as they go
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Uhm. No, there has to be at least one partition.
in error will be resettup with partition, but if error appears, they
will get formated before resetup. Partitioning is looked at as an
option whereby error takes longer to reappear.
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I lost you now. You don't mean partitioning helps to get worn-out disks
working a bit longer, don't you? *banging my forehead against ... let it be
a pillow*
There is never automatic reboot. Error appears only when machine is
restarted or repowered.
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You mean, the machine has the bluescreen at startup and that one stays long
enough you can write it down? Usually that happens with the
dreaded "unmountable_boot_device" and similar fatal errors only.
So why not do write it down to keep our crystal balls clear?
 
WhzzKdd said:
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The poor guy is seriously lacking in basic grammer skills.
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Maybe it's just me but I've seen similar 'grammer' appearing in other posts.
Lots of tech speak but with rather flawed grammer, obfuscated logic & a
fixation on one solution (see w_tom in the thread 'PC won't power on')

Makes me wonder if Kman hasn't transmorgified into another (subtler) form of
bot.

Paul.
 
All the furry creatures in 24hoursupport.helpdesk gathered 'round and
watched as PeeCee said:
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Maybe it's just me but I've seen similar 'grammer' appearing in other posts.
Lots of tech speak but with rather flawed grammer, obfuscated logic & a
fixation on one solution (see w_tom in the thread 'PC won't power on')

Makes me wonder if Kman hasn't transmorgified into another (subtler) form of
bot.

Paul.
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And it's "grammar" not "grammer"

just my two cents.
mark
 
Mark Dykstra said:
All the furry creatures in 24hoursupport.helpdesk gathered 'round and
watched as PeeCee said:

And it's "grammar" not "grammer"

just my two cents.
mark
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Heh - quite correct. I stand spell-checked (or spell-chequed?)

My old Grammers had much better grammar then I do anyway <g>!
 
Is it a policy you are talking about?


Uhm. No, there has to be at least one partition.


I lost you now. You don't mean partitioning helps to get worn-out disks
working a bit longer, don't you? *banging my forehead against ... let it be
a pillow*





You mean, the machine has the bluescreen at startup and that one stays long
enough you can write it down? Usually that happens with the
dreaded "unmountable_boot_device" and similar fatal errors only.
So why not do write it down to keep our crystal balls clear?
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Sorry, I could not respond earlier.

I do plan to write down error next time and I am sure there will be
next time in six months at least on one of many machines.

Right now on 2 machines fresh disk are put with partition.

Both disks after bluescreen error when connected via USB could be
accessed.

One of 2 faulty disks put in as secondary disk went into chkds on
restart. After about 16 hours the disk is accessible in the machine
from where it was taken out and where it was primary disk.

On http://www.updatexp.com/windows-xp-chkdsk.html Marc Liron of
Microsoft writes

"In Windows XP you can perform error checking on hard drives by using
the chkdsk.exe command line utility.

Chkdsk will verify and repair (optional) the integrity of the file
system on any chosen volume.

I encourage ALL users to run this utility on a regular basis (at least
once a month.)"

Could the same be done on win2kpro? Perhaps that would have prevented
the bluescreen error. So far I have encountered only chkdsk initiated
by OS itself on restart.
 
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Maybe it's just me but I've seen similar 'grammer' appearing in other posts.
Lots of tech speak but with rather flawed grammer,
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I am not any tech, though with reasonably good lawnmoving and tree
sprunning skills.
 
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