partitioning hard drive for XP, question about NTFS?

[deras]

I just bought a new 60gb hard drive for a new computer I am building. I am partitioning it with Partition Magic using the NTFS file system... the only thing i am a little clueless about is the Primary, Logical, and Active settings... Do I have to set any of the partitions as Active (i know with 98/me the OS partition needed to be active) but i thought with XP it does not matter. Right now I was going to set the OS partition as Primary 7gb, and then two 25gb Logical partitions... but I not sure whether i need to set the OS partition as active. Any ideas, suggestions, recommendation?

 

[Imaginer]

Bump for you!

 

[cleverhandle]

Logical partitions are used when you need more than four partitions on one physical disk - since you only need three, you can make them all Primary and that will work fine. As for "Active," I'm not sure. Since XP uses a bootloader, it probably doesn't matter one way or another - the bootloader on the disk MBR should take control before the system looks at the partition boot records. Try it with the OS partition set active first and see if any problems occur. Also, I'm not really sure why you're using Partition Magic here - IIRC, XP can partition and format the disk during installation, unlike Win98.