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| 363951 | 2005-06-14 21:26:00 | Heres an easy one for you all :) My current setup is this: On 80GB Samsung I have Win XP Pro installed, with one further partition for zipped applications, music etc (each partition 40GB) On 40GB Seagate I have 15 Gig NTFS partition (for ghosts of other drive), 8 Gig FAT32/VFAT partition for file swaps between Win and Linux, approx 14Gig Linux partition, and a 1Gig swap. I am getting a 80GB Seagate drive in the next few days for Linux Do I keep the 40GB for Windows (which will hardly be used and uses up about 20+ Gig) and use Samsung for a spare, or vice versa? Samsung drive is a couple of months old, Seagate is 2+ years old (and still humming :D) |
Myth (110) | ||
| 363952 | 2005-06-14 22:09:00 | Heres an easy one for you all :) My current setup is this: On 80GB Samsung I have Win XP Pro installed, with one further partition for zipped applications, music etc (each partition 40GB) On 40GB Seagate I have 15 Gig NTFS partition (for ghosts of other drive), 8 Gig FAT32/VFAT partition for file swaps between Win and Linux, approx 14Gig Linux partition, and a 1Gig swap. I am getting a 80GB Seagate drive in the next few days for Linux Do I keep the 40GB for Windows (which will hardly be used and uses up about 20+ Gig) and use Samsung for a spare, or vice versa? Samsung drive is a couple of months old, Seagate is 2+ years old (and still humming :D) Ditch the Samsung, Seagate is far better quality. Bet the Samsung doesn't last as long. :) |
pctek (84) | ||
| 363953 | 2005-06-15 07:23:00 | Option one: Put the new 80 gig drive in as the new Primary slave and format it as FAT32. Leave XP as is on it's drive. Use the old 40 gig slave drive as Secondary Master for Linux. Less mucking around that way. Option two (best): Get one of these (www.dse.co.nz) plus a spare tray. The XP 80 gig hard drive goes into one caddy tray and is set as Master, and the 40 gig hard drive (Linux) goes into the other caddy tray and is also set as Master. The new 80 gig hard drive is mounted in the normal place inside the case and set as Slave. The drive caddy rack is fixed into a spare 5.25" bay. By using the removable tray's you do not have to dual boot and each OS cannot stuff up the other one. You just insert whichever OS you wish to run into the drive caddy rack. It also makes installation easy as you don't have to worry about MBR's being mucked up. The 80 gig drive is permanently mounted as Slave and both OS's can access and share this storage area. On the Linux drive, put aside a partition to use as /home so that if you wish to dual boot Linux on that drive at a later date or change OS's, your /home data is left untouched or can be shared between Linux OS's. |
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