How should I partition my hard drive? 20GB

[SUOrangeman]

Did someone say "partitioning"? *wink* *wink*

-SUO, yeah I took a few days off (well, not really)

 

[GeekDrew]

wondered where you were, suo. and yes, i've read your dissertation several times.

 

[Plantanthera]

shrinertech - I don't see your logic on that many partitions.

What kind of "consultant" would use Partition Magic to partition their HDD (I have seen Partition Magic screwed up patition table, but haven't have any problem with FDISK) & how could you not have a 486 or Pentium around to load Win98se on, or throw in $100.00 for an additional HDD???

After formating your 20gigs HDD, you will have around 18gigs.

If you must try out your crazy theory, then try this:

C: - FAT - 1GB - Win98
D: - FAT - 1/1.5GB - WinME
E: - NTFS - 1.5/2GB - Win2k (it is strange that you don't run Win2k Server or Addvancer when you are a consutant)
F: - FAT32 - 8/12GB - Programs, Data & Cab files (you can in stall all Programs to this folder in each OS to save room)
G: - NTFS - 3/5GB - Secure Data & Files for Win2k

If you are serious, then you must have some kind of backing up schema, either Network backup or tape of some kind. And, MS OSes will need to be on a Primary partition to boot. Therefor 4 primary partitions is the max number of partitions that you can have, unless you have 3 Primary then you could have 4 extended/logical partitions.

C:/D:/E: will need to be the primary partitions, while C: [default] will also be an Active partition for the boot loader.

F:/G: will have to be Extended/Logical partitions.

 

[GeekDrew]

I haven't used partition magic before. The only reason to do so is that you could change your partitions on the fly, supposedly. The only reason that I don't have another computer for W9x is because I don't physically have enough room. Also, I really don't know why I should get another hard drive when partitioning would work just as well, IMHO....

Finally, yes I'm a computer consultant. HOWEVER, that is part time, and is not my primary occupation at the moment. I really don't have a need for Server or Adv Server.