One big partition is how I would go with a 160, especially with XP and office then throw in a few movies, crap down to 12 or 15 gig, time to start worrying, remember when getting to around 10 or 15 meg was a worry??????
-----Original Message----- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of dsinc...@bellsouth.net Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:27 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Partition Question I do not have my "XP-4-Noobz" books yet ............. :) Checking my old W2Kpro books for ideas. Seeking advice on how to partition a new 160GB drive for XPpro. I am going to suppose that XP install/format will leave me with ~148GB of formatted space (ntfs). This should net 4x ~37GB partitions. I expect that the first/initial partition is Primary/Active/Boot (~37GB). For the remaining 111GB? Can imagine single "Extended" partition w/3 logical drives (d:, e:, f: ) ... or maybe, 3 "Extended" partitions (d:, e:, f:, ) ... trying to do this correct to start off! For a change...... :) Sorry, still new to XP and pata/sata drives. Best, Duncan
