Partition schemes for win98se?

[Busie23]

I'm setting up a new pc and am looking for some ideas on partitioning. I'm running windows 98se with a Maxtor 80GB hd. The main programs that will be run are ms office, digital camera software, pda stuff, aohell, and a lot of music files. I plan on storing some images on it for backups, etc.

Thanks,

Busie23

 

[SUOrangeman]

If anything, create separate partitions to keep your personal files from mingling with OS files. If you ever have to reinstall the OS, you can rest asure your personal files are still intact on another partition.

However, do not assume this method is as good or better than a decent backup scheme.

-SUO

 

[Busie23]

I'm looking at putting win98se, win2k, winxp, and linux on it. As well as seperate partitions for mp3's, data (word, excel, and other school work, etc.), norton images for backups, downloads, and games. Maybe one more for my digital pictures. What are good sizes for the os's?
Would 4GB for win98se, 6GB for both win2k and XP work ok?

Also, where do program files go? Do they go with the os's partition, or can they all go on one seperate partition? And do they need installed mutiple times? Like if I was going to run MS Office, do I load it on all three OS's or just once?

Sean

 

[SUOrangeman]

Here's what I've done with my 120GB monster:

4GB Primary - FreeBSD 4.6
2GB Primary - QNX 6.2
1GB Primary - FAT16
Rest of drive is included in an extended partition
-2GB Logical - BeOS (never installed)
-2GB Logical - Unused (I think it's still there, for future unnamed projects)
-3GB Logical - WinXP NTFS
-4GB Logical - Win2K NTFS (my main OS ... for now)
-2GB Logical - Personal documents NTFS
-2GB Logcal - FAT32 WinME
~15GB Logcial - FAT32 Games
~40GB Logical - FAT32 MP3s
~30GB Logical - FAT32 Downloads
-50MB Logical - Linux /boot
-4GB Logical - Linux /
-512MB Logical - Linux/home

or something like that ... whatever adds up to 114GB. I am multi-booting everything using the NT Loader from WinXP.

-SUO

 

[HTRednek]

You want to leave space on each partition for programs that require installation in the os partition and for a swap file. 2K takes 1.5 to 2 gig and XP about 3. I do install my programs (games, office, etc) on a separate partition but you will have to reinstall them for each windows install that you have. Even if you install all on the same partition the OS will not recognise it without installing it. (unless your a wizard at registry hacking). Good Luck.

 

[Busie23]

So what is the difference between logical and primary in the example above? I thought you could obly do one primary and the rest logigal extended drives? I have been searching for some tutorials, etc on partitions and have not come up with much. Does anyone have any good ones they would recommend?

I think I understand the games/programs part: If I have three OS's on my drive I would have to install MS office on each drive as well for it to work, right? But, then you said you install them games/programs on a differnt partition? Are you just placing all the programs etc, on one partition and running the installs from that drive? Or am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Sean

 

[beverage]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman
Here's what I've done with my 120GB monster:

4GB Primary - FreeBSD 4.6
2GB Primary - QNX 6.2
1GB Primary - FAT16
Rest of drive is included in an extended partition
-2GB Logical - BeOS (never installed)
-2GB Logical - Unused (I think it's still there, for future unnamed projects)
-3GB Logical - WinXP NTFS
-4GB Logical - Win2K NTFS (my main OS ... for now)
-2GB Logical - Personal documents NTFS
-2GB Logcal - FAT32 WinME
~15GB Logcial - FAT32 Games
~40GB Logical - FAT32 MP3s
~30GB Logical - FAT32 Downloads
-50MB Logical - Linux /boot
-4GB Logical - Linux /
-512MB Logical - Linux/home

or something like that ... whatever adds up to 114GB. I am multi-booting everything using the NT Loader from WinXP.

-SUO

OH MY GOD. What the hell?

 

[IcemanJer]

Originally posted by: beverage
OH MY GOD. What the hell?

Just what I was gonna say..... :Q

 

[SUOrangeman]

(Officially reporting in after a long, but worthy, honeymoon, ...)

What else am I supposed to do with 120GB? Only run one OS? 😛

-SUO

 

[lowtech1]

I would do one large fat32 partition.

I don't know how much & what type of school work you have, but most .doc/.xls files shoulcn't take much room. A floppy should be able to store at least a paper, and there is also cd that can accomodate huge music, graphics & cad files.

I use to do all kind of crazy hdd partition configurations for multi boot & for data safety, but I now format the entire hdd as one large partition.

It is very likely that most computer enthusiast own more than one older hdd that can be use for a backup drive with their favourite OS on it as a rescue disk. And, most would also own a cd burner that could also be use for backing up important files. Therefore it isn?t much advantage for having multi partitions over one single large partition.