I currently have a Western Digital 7200rpm 25GB hard drive. In the upcoming week after school is over I plan on adding a WD 7200rpm 100GB hard drive to my puter. 
I am going to dump Windows 98 finally and upgrade to either XP Pro or 2K Pro, haven't decided yet. I will dual boot one of those with Linux which I want to learn over my break. The files that'll be taking up most of my space is stuff I download off from DSL, video files, mp3's, games, etc. Maybe some dvd ripping which I want to do as well. So which drive should I install the OS's too? Will either OS boot faster from one hdd or the other?
I have Win98 right now, if there's a problem shutting down, it will scandisk each partition on my 25GB drive on the next bootup so I'm leaning away from installing the OS's to the 100GB drive as I'd hate to wait for all 100GB to be scanned, or maybe XP or 2K did away with that? Considering I'm learning to use Linux, how big should each partition should be for Linux and Windows, how many partitions? Thanks for any advice!
I am going to dump Windows 98 finally and upgrade to either XP Pro or 2K Pro, haven't decided yet. I will dual boot one of those with Linux which I want to learn over my break. The files that'll be taking up most of my space is stuff I download off from DSL, video files, mp3's, games, etc. Maybe some dvd ripping which I want to do as well. So which drive should I install the OS's too? Will either OS boot faster from one hdd or the other?
I have Win98 right now, if there's a problem shutting down, it will scandisk each partition on my 25GB drive on the next bootup so I'm leaning away from installing the OS's to the 100GB drive as I'd hate to wait for all 100GB to be scanned, or maybe XP or 2K did away with that? Considering I'm learning to use Linux, how big should each partition should be for Linux and Windows, how many partitions? Thanks for any advice!
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