I am presuming you wish to make multiple partitions, format each and see them as separate drive letters. If you ask "how many", one might presume you have already decided to create the maximum number you can and have a reason for doing so. Drive letter assignments can be at least A to Z but but will be reduced by the number assigned to other drives or devices already. Your operating system (determines partition types possible) and BIOS (can it support the entire 200gb) play a roll so I will not attempt to calculate an exact #. You need to know why you want multiple partitions. They can assist in your organizing, backup, and security plans with some limitations. For instance, some folks like to keep the OS and some installed programs on one drive and use others for storage. You might want one just for documents or images, etc. In this case, you would need to know what size you wanted to allocate for each purpose. Personally, I would partition into as few drives as I needed as too many can be cumbersome to manage. The final decision becomes yours but you need to put plenty of thought into it first as, once you have chopped up the drive, it's not so easy to undo things. Good luck.
hi there, i'm gonna be getting a seagate barracuda 200gb 7200 8mb cache HDD. the question is how many drives can i atually create? etc. C drive, D drive......And how big should i separate them in and for what?
thanx for any help.

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