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Greetings all!
I am about to perform a clean install of Windows XP - home edition - on a 30 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP and was wondering how i should partition the drive. Before XP, I had the drive partitioned as follows - using Windows ME:
c: Boot Disk 50MB - FAT 16
d: Swap Disk 550MB - FAT32
e: Windoze 2.4GB - FAT32
f: Internet 8GB - FAT32
g: Appz 5GB - FAT32
h: Gamez 5GB - FAT32
i: MP3z 5GB - FAT32
j: Data 4GB - FAT32
I understand XP has a new file system - NTFS - and that I should use this for all partitions. Please advise as to the best partition setup, i.e. are boot and swap disks required & is 2.4GB enough for XP?
Thanks in advance!
Hardware Junkie
I am about to perform a clean install of Windows XP - home edition - on a 30 gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP and was wondering how i should partition the drive. Before XP, I had the drive partitioned as follows - using Windows ME:
c: Boot Disk 50MB - FAT 16
d: Swap Disk 550MB - FAT32
e: Windoze 2.4GB - FAT32
f: Internet 8GB - FAT32
g: Appz 5GB - FAT32
h: Gamez 5GB - FAT32
i: MP3z 5GB - FAT32
j: Data 4GB - FAT32
I understand XP has a new file system - NTFS - and that I should use this for all partitions. Please advise as to the best partition setup, i.e. are boot and swap disks required & is 2.4GB enough for XP?
Thanks in advance!
Hardware Junkie