Help Partitioning HD

[jacktesterson]

I currently have a 30 GB HD I want to parititon. I just need some opions on how I should do so. Windows 2000 Pro will be my primary OS. Is 3 GB large enough? Then 1 GB for Win 98 SE. Then 19 For Mp3's/Games, then the other 6.x GB for Apps.........what do you guys think of this scheme?

 

[teddymines]

Partitioning beyond 2 is useless IMHO. I have the exact setup you have and did this:
1. Partition the drive into a 5gb dos partition and make it active. Leave the rest unpartitioned.
2. Format the dos partition.
3. Install windows 98se into the dos partition.
4. Insert your windows 2000 cd and do a clean install into the other partition, using NTFS.

When you boot, you will be given the choice of OS to load. Windows 2000 is the default. You will see the DOS partition from 2000, but you won't see the 2000 partition from DOS. Keep your windows 98 partition small because all you'll probably need it for is legacy games.

 

[SUOrangeman]

WHY? WHY? WHY DO PEOPLE ... create a separate apps partition?

If you have to blow away one of the PS partitions, you will still have to reinstall the apps to restore the registry entries.

And, as far as *I* am concerned, you do NOT need to run the same apps from both OSes. Win2K is likely the OS where you do all of your real work. If you only want Win9x for games, why bother installing all of your other apps in Win9x when you won't even use them there?

IF ANYTHING, create a separate partition to keep your personal files (AKA "My Documents").

As far as I am concerned, dual/mutli-booting is NOT intended for running all of the same apps everywhere. Use each OS for its strength. I would say that XP/2K are there for stability, so you do your real-world stuff there. Anything that doesn't work, revert to Win9x/ME/NT4/etc.

Am I way off base?

-SUO, runs 6 OSes on his machine, yet only one install of, say, Office ... for only one OS

 

[teddymines]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
As far as I am concerned, dual/mutli-booting is NOT intended for running all of the same apps everywhere. Use each OS for its strength. I would say that XP/2K are there for stability, so you do your real-world stuff there. Anything that doesn't work, revert to Win9x/ME/NT4/etc.

Am I way off base?

-SUO, runs 6 OSes on his machine, yet only one install of, say, Office ... for only one OS

You're on-base as far as I'm concerned. The only apps I have in both OS partitions are MBM and sandra (and of course video/sound drivers).

 

[vetteguy]

Haven't there been about 30 threads about this in the past week or two???