how should i partition my drive?

[rocadelpunk]

I just setup my 240gig raid-0 <3

i sorta did it haphazerdly though, I have a couple of partition magic somewhere, and was wondering how I should partition my system...?

Should I Just leave windows on its own partition of like 3-4 gigs?

then make seperate partitions for programs, games, and then storage type stuff?

do i have to worry about paging file or anything?

Thanks, oh it's for xp pro.

 

[cycleman77]

Leave Windows on its own partition and make seperate partitions for eveything else. If Windows goes bad and you need to wipe the partition clean, you dont want to lose anything else.
Personally, I have a partition for Windows, programs, games, music, and data. Thats all ana 40 gig though.

 

[Sid59]

3-4 is pretty small for XP. I'd increase it a bit. 8 is pretty healthy.

 

[0roo0roo]

4-5gb partition for xp/appz. ghost this after. that way you can restore your hosed system in minutes without data loss on big partition.

 

[dunkster]

What Oroo Oroo said.

I have multiple partitions, but focus is on system and data recovery.

I install OS and critical apps and utilities on the System partition, and all critical data (app files, drivers, zips, etc.) on Data partition. These two partitions are Ghosted to CDs regularly and the images are checked for image integrity.

Other partitions are for non-critical stuff, such as trial apps, games, trial downloads, etc.

The obvious goal of two critical partitions is quick recovery of a tweaked system setup and critical data in the event of system or component failure.

Hope this helps!

 

[rocadelpunk]

thanks for the help!

I used partition express, the partition magic wouldn't work for me : \ (xp pro)

the pe worked perfectly though.