Partitioning a drive

[kandrathe]

Hail Lurkers,

My main drive is a 20 gig hard drive (17 gig actual space).  Once it began filling up, I bought a 250 gig hard drive (233 gig actual space) to free up some space on my main drive. My computer had no trouble partitioning the LARGE drive as some thought it might be difficult, but I've been told that a drive that size should be partitioned into smaller drives for maximum efficiency. What do you guys think is the best size drives I should partition? I have been burning a lot of movies lately so bigger would be better, but 250 gig is definitely is too big.  Also, would it be better to “partition” the drive into smaller sections or to use Alcohol 120% to set it up into virtual drives?  I have no experience with this and I'm not even sure how to partition my drive again, lol.

Thanks for any replies ahead of time.

NOTE: I don't have access to a spell-checker at the moment so bear with me please  .
EDIT: I just got home and ran this threw the spell-checker :) .  Clarified a few things.
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Usually I partition for a purpose, like a boot partition which I can use to run Ghost to reimage the OS, or a Linux boot partition. If you are just chunking it into manageable sized chunks, then that is up to you. I got tired of partitions and having 15GB free on my E: drive and running out of space on my F: drive, etc. So now I create partitions for special purposes. Like, if you want to store a bunch of CD images, or music that might be a good use. Otherwise, if you are not going to be backing up the drive to tape, then you should forecast in your mind the day when the drive fails and you just lost 233GB of stuff you've collected for the past four years.

Then you might want to save up for a DVD burner.