Partitioning a new laptop

[Jim B]

I've always kept things simple and thats the best policy IMO

Nice and clean OS, only DJ software(s) and mp3 tagging software installed. External harddrive for music

Been like this for 6 years. Zero problems

You don't need partition after partition after partition.

It's just barmy.

[KevMaverick]

I use an external drive that is exclusively for my my data backups. That has worked for me for years.

[Jim B]

*Edit*

Also got a good Registry Cleaner installed and Microsoft Essentials for when I go online to download updates for my OS. Other than that it's turned off.

[ddjj]

This will be my one and only computer unfortunately...I for the most part will have song and video files for running Cross with the video plug-in....I will have to use it for web surfing, emailing and Office product stuff...I do have 2 500 Gb external hard drives..I probably should have said this on the onset of my question! Any more replies will be appreciated
Thx
DDJJ

[BennyB]

If you don't separate system and data, you're dancing with the devil !

Exactly

[KevMaverick]

I can only speak from experience:

I have a laptop which has all my music stored on it, along with 1000's of karaoke files. I have 200+ movies on it, I run Steam games, surf the internet, and watch dvd's on it. It is my everyday computer, and like tonight, when I have a gig, I just turn it off, plug it in at the venue, and it works just fine!

The only thing I do different at gigs, is turn of the wifi so it's not searching for connections...

I backup my stuff every week, to an external drive, and honestly, everything is absolutely fine!

I'm not saying that the other guys are wrong, just saying that my setup works for me just fine!

[Alexkidd]

I'm with the keep-it-simple side as well.

One desktop, one laptop here, each with its own audio interface.
Both 6 year old, running on XP pro, but absolutely music optimized. no partitions, regular defragments, format every 6 months

8 softwares on each max.
Desktop: mixvibes, ableton, illustaror, gimp, codeblocks, chrome, openoffice
Laptop: mixvibes, ableton, codeblocks, chrome

and everything's sweet

[Hannes]

yey, codeblocks

[Alexkidd]

yey, codeblocks

i prefer sublime but has no build in compiler

[Hannes]

Offtopic.HorsSujet!

I prefer gedit/notepad++ and the see where my mistakes are when compiling, best way to learn but very stressful sometimes