Mark, I am still chuckling. Yes, I do remember when............... Recall was your crib for H-Con/West! Ok, that's 2 votes for one big 160GB partition and a buzzilion folders................ Heck, that will look just like my W2KServer's RAID-5! So, I do have some experience with this model. Thanks, Duncan
-------------- Original message from "mark.dodge" <mark.do...@earthlink.net>: -------------- > 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 >
