can i create those three partitions BEFORE installing Win98? i think with FDISK you can create either all partitions in FAT 16 or FAT 32, is it true? how can i overcome this? is there any other program allowing me to do this BEFORE installing the OS or do i have to resort to partitioning utilities like Partition Magic once in Win98, implying that before i'll have to create one primary (and active) FAT 16 partition with FDISK to install Win98? what would you recommend?
thanks a lot
BTW, maybe i shouldn't bother, but i've been told that putting the swap on a partition of its own it's not much an advantage in pure performance as an advantage in keeping your OS and Programs partitions free of fragmentation that over time will severely slow down the system. sure, you can do a defrag but we all know how often that must be done.
and having an OS partition i can mess the OS badly while tinkering, and all i need to do is reinstall it without loosing data / programs (i've read that even those that modify the registry can be reinstalled in no time since the installation process looks for already present components).
i'd like to make the OS and swap partitions FAT 16 because having less clusters than FAT 32 it's faster to look em up, the difference in performance IS NOT BIG BUT NOTICEABLE and those partitions HAVE TO BE SMALL ANYWAY, so why should i go with FAT 32 instead? to save a little space? i have plenty of space in the huge FAT 32 programs partition. i obviously can't afford FAT 16 with it's 2GB limit in the program partion, in fact it's true it could be well divided into a LOT of logical drives (i'd nearly run out of letters with my 40 Gigger!) but would be a mess to deal with since i couldn't remember where i put what and i'd have to check all the logical drives all the time.
plus, being a newbie, i just enjoy learning how to do things, even if those things are not very useful...
thanks a lot again for your input
thanks a lot
BTW, maybe i shouldn't bother, but i've been told that putting the swap on a partition of its own it's not much an advantage in pure performance as an advantage in keeping your OS and Programs partitions free of fragmentation that over time will severely slow down the system. sure, you can do a defrag but we all know how often that must be done.
and having an OS partition i can mess the OS badly while tinkering, and all i need to do is reinstall it without loosing data / programs (i've read that even those that modify the registry can be reinstalled in no time since the installation process looks for already present components).
i'd like to make the OS and swap partitions FAT 16 because having less clusters than FAT 32 it's faster to look em up, the difference in performance IS NOT BIG BUT NOTICEABLE and those partitions HAVE TO BE SMALL ANYWAY, so why should i go with FAT 32 instead? to save a little space? i have plenty of space in the huge FAT 32 programs partition. i obviously can't afford FAT 16 with it's 2GB limit in the program partion, in fact it's true it could be well divided into a LOT of logical drives (i'd nearly run out of letters with my 40 Gigger!) but would be a mess to deal with since i couldn't remember where i put what and i'd have to check all the logical drives all the time.
plus, being a newbie, i just enjoy learning how to do things, even if those things are not very useful...
thanks a lot again for your input
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