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W2K and Partitions

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Carbo

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I'm about to install Windows 2000 Pro on a new IBM 75GXP 46 Gig hard drive. I'll be setting up several partitions on this disk. I'm figuring 5G's for the OS itself, plus my other MS programs, the biggest of which is Office 2000. Is this a wise amount of space?
More? Less?
Also, previously when setting up and installing W98, I would use the Fdisk utility to format and partition. I've been told that with W2K this isn't necessary. After installing the OS on a clean drive, W2K will offer me the chance to partition directly. Is this correct? If so, how well does this work? As always, thank you..
 
5GB is plenty if Office 2K is your biggest app. I you are going to run any other large apps...stuff like Photoshop...I would make it 10GB. Also, you can boot with the Win2K CD and the setup will let you create and format the hard drive from there. Once Windows is setup you can then partition and format the rest of your hard drive (from Disk Managment).
 
I recently configured WIN2K on my system and this was my partitioning strategy:

C:\ 800mg- boot loader, pagefiles, Temp/TMP files, Temporary Internet Files FAT16
D:\ 2gig- WIN2K FAT32
E:\ 3gig- Applications FAT32
F:\ 4gig- Games FAT32
G:\ 4gig- Data1 FAT32
H:\ 4gig- MP3's FAT32
I:\ 1gig- CD Image FAT32

I am quite happy with this setup. I researched this a lot before doing it and thank SUOrangeman for much of the guidance.
 
Yes, when you install 2000 choose the "new setup" so it won't go over your '98 stuff. Shortly after is a screen that will let you customize how you want it installed, and you can check the box to let you point to the partition you want to use. After the reboot, it will ask you to point to where you want it, and whether to convert it or not. Works great!

I agree with what was mentioned above. 5 gigs is OK for office apps, but higher if you use many other large programs.

I have a pair of 45's, here's what I did: 15 Gig for 98 and various apps, 15 also for Win 2000 and apps, 30 for "storage" - mp3's, etc., and 30 for games.

The 2000 partition is hidden from 98, which is nice to keep it a little safer. I'd like to hide the 98 partition from 2000, but don't know how. (Please see new thread in "OS's" if you do).

There are good ideas about dedicating small partitions to be swap and temp files, etc. but I don't like that many drive letters! Personal thing though, it's fine for others.
 
SUO- As with many in these forums, I have quietly followed your posts for a while. I first applied your partitioning strategy when I dual booted 98 & 2K and that has carried over into the setup described above. Thank you again.
 
tracerbullet- The idea behind smaller partitions and separation of the OS, Applications, Pagefiles, and Temp files is two things. The first is speed. In the setup described above, the pagefiles and temp files are on the fastest part of the drive which is formatted in the fastest file system, FAT16. The secondary affect of this is that prevents your OS from getting fragmented. The more you can isolate your OS the faster it will be, and continue to be.
My rule of thumb, at this time, is to avoid making a partition larger than 5gig. I see you have partitions that are 15gig. Do you like defraging partitions this large?

To each their own and this is my 2 cents.
 
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