partition a hard drive

I have 250 gb 7200rpm hard drive (western digital) AMD 32 2700 2.8 gh. My question is; is it absolutly critical that i partition my hard drive for digital video editing?

 

It's certainly not a matter of life or death
It's entirely up to you!

 

its not a neccessity but if you wish to try getting a program like partition magic which will patition it in either FAT32 of NTFS under a windows platform.

 

Well it will take for ever to defrag that 250GB hard drive.If your drives gose bad(May that never happen)
It will be a pain in the ass to recover info on your Hard drive.(C: drive goes at least you should be able to save the stuff on the D: drive E:, etc.

 

i have 2 drives 1 x 80 gig with 5 partitions
1 x 160 gig with 2 partitions


for me its much easier to manage