PARTITIONS

What are Partitions, and what does everyone use them for.

I hear about them being used for different storage mediums, on this forum alot.

I am not using them, is that hurting me??

trunxlucent wrote:What are Partitions, and what does everyone use them for.

I hear about them being used for different storage mediums, on this forum alot.

I am not using them, is that hurting me??

I want to laugh at u so HARD! but i wont cause not everything everyone knows, its just how u asked the question "... is that hurting me?" thats so funny!!

anyway to answer your question (in Laymens Terms), Partitions are like seperating your drives like into Folders but they look like Drives.
So on a MPC2000XL or 2000 i think, you can have more than one drive on a drive. its for organising your files mainly. We do this on PC's more than anything else cause it looks nice and help for optimisation and stuff blah blah blah i.m having nightmares of FDISK now.....

hope that helps.

Please do laugh!!! I should know that.

But u would be amazed at what I DO know.

Anyway, how do I set up partitions, using a regular internal zip?

You won't need a partition on a regular zip, the enitre disc will be one partition. The MPC can't read drives of 1Gig or greater, so it breaks them up into smaller partitions. This mainly comes into effect with Hard Drives and now card readers that use cards of 1gig or more.

You can easily set up partitions on a zip through the MPC... however it is highly NOT recommended if you plan to move your disk between a computer. ALWAYS format the disk on the computer first otherwise you may have serious grief later when you lose your data. Partitions really aren't going to do much for you with 100 or even 250 meg of space. You can just as easily put things in subfolders and have the same effect and have it be easier to manage since you can see them all at once without having to switch partitions. Just my opinion.

McSmooth wrote:You can easily set up partitions on a zip through the MPC... however it is highly NOT recommended if you plan to move your disk between a computer. ALWAYS format the disk on the computer first otherwise you may have serious grief later when you lose your data. Partitions really aren't going to do much for you with 100 or even 250 meg of space. You can just as easily put things in subfolders and have the same effect and have it be easier to manage since you can see them all at once without having to switch partitions. Just my opinion.

This is route I would go if I were you T. I do this anyway and it's true what is written here.

KOO.

I just asked cuz I was in LA at SONY last week, and the cat I was workin wit had a 3000, and he had his different sounds and stuff in different partitions.

I was already frustrated, with that dawg on 3000 thingy too.

JUST MADE ME WONDER THOUGH.

GOOD LOOKIN.

from time your organised ya self who cares how he does his sh1t.
i'm still experimenting with different ways my self as we speak, especially with my 1000 i'm getting so pissed i might just shuv it all in one card with no folders!

IT actually does help to partition your disk.(100 or 250 meg)Since the 2k can't read subfolders you can partition to access/load data easier.I do it all the time and it makes things so much easier.IMO

stryke wrote:IT actually does help to partition your disk.(100 or 250 meg)Since the 2k can't read subfolders you can partition to access/load data easier.I do it all the time and it makes things so much easier.IMO

Just keep in mind a PC will only read the first partition of the disc.

i don't share disk between the mp and pc.So it works out for me.

"Just keep in mind a PC will only read the first partition of the disc"

This is a limitation of Windows . In Linux, I can read/write to every partition of an MPC formatted disk. I can even extend the disk handling and use all sixteen characters of the filenames. That is what is nice about Open Source systems. If you want something done a certain way, the tools, source and documentation are there, free.