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Help With Partitioning WinXP

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nwrigley

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I?m trying to figure out the best strategy for convenience/performance when it comes to partitioning my system. I have 3 hard drives: 2 older WD SE 120gigs and 1 new Seagate 250gig. I made the mistake of making the new Seagate my boot drive, figuring that I wanted to load Windows/apps on the faster drive, but I didn?t make a separate partition for the OS/apps. So now it?s a pain in the ass because I have tons of data saved to the drive but I want to reformat/reinstall the OS. Which gets to my question: what makes the most sense?

I?m thinking that I still want OS/apps on the newer/faster drive, so I should partition part of it off and use the rest for data. The other two drives will be used for data as well, with one of them being dedicated to capturing video. Is my thinking correct or does it make more sense to have my most frequently used data on a separate (physical) drive from OS/apps?

Also, what is a good way for estimating what size to make your OS/apps partition? Should I just add the size of my Windows + Program Files folders for a general idea or am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for helping!
 
You can use Norton PartitionMagic 8 to create a data partition onyour exisiting good drive. You can also clone the OS partition on the new Seagate to a smaller drive - 250 GB is way more than is needed by the OS.
 
1. Definitely make the newer drive the boot drive it's probably the fastest drive that you have.

2. Download: Gparted live iso Burn the iso to a cd-rw and use it to partition your drive.

3. Make the OS partition 10 to 25 gigs depending on what Apps you need to install. Large games need space.

My latest setup is like this:

C: 15 GiB = Windows XP 32 bit edition
D: 15 GiB = Windows XP 64 bit edition
E: 15 GiB = Windows Vista 32 edition
L: 160 GiB = Backups
M: 160 GiB = MP3

I'm not a gamer so I don't need a OS partition beyond 15 GiB but 25 GiB would have been better for the C drive since it has grown a lot since I installed it.
 
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