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Partition questions

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firestorm225

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Whats the best way to partition your hard drive if you have Windows 98SE and XP (and I have a 80gb hard drive)? 2gb's each for the OS's and the rest for programs? Or like 40gb each OS? And a few questions


1) Just to make sure, say I make a partition on the hard drive, put a few files on it, and then unisntall all OS's. It will still exist when I later install an OS, right?

2) Ok, lets say I have a program on a computer on a partition. If I turn on Windows 98SE and run that program, it will run like it would under 98SE? And if I turn on XP it will run like it would under XP?

Thanks.
 
Hrmm.... if I were you, I would do something like this...
2GB for Win8.x
5GB for WinXP
3GB for page file, etc...
I know that's giving alot to each, but that leavs you ALOT of room for expansion...
The rest of the space, I, personally, would chop up some more... Find out what you do most, and organise it thusly.

Ex: 70GB left
40GB movies
20GB prog's
10GB data

All depends on what you do with your computer...
You might have to install each program twice. Once in WinXP then boot Win98 and point to the same files to build the registry entries...
 
Virtual Memory in windowsXP, and I'm not 100% sure if you can move your windows 98 swap file... You really don't need 3GB, maybee only 1... I was liberal with the first 3 partitions because you have a bigger drive...
 
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