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| 110768 | 2003-01-03 19:36:00 | Hi, I have just got a new 60gb HDD, which i'm about to install WIN XP Pro on, i want to partition it into drives (30gb, 20gb, 5gb, 5gb) how do i go about this - what is the best way? I've heard you do it in Fdisk or something, and i've heard when u install xp u can do it in there? Also, wot type of drive should i have, NTFS or FAT 32 (i woulndn't have a clue wot teh diff is) Cheers |
fergie (424) | ||
| 110769 | 2003-01-03 19:41:00 | Fergie, If you're installing XP from scratch, you can do it from within the XP installation - have the drive installed and ready to use, and boot from the XP CD, and you should be presented with the option to format your drive, but you can also break the drive into partitions at this point as well. Just follow the instructions onscreen, it's fairly easy to do (make all your partitions first, then select the first one to install XP on to and it'll format it for you). Once XP is installed you can format the other 3 partitions. HTH - sorry I couldn't give more instructions, I can't really remember what exactly the installation says :) Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 110770 | 2003-01-03 20:21:00 | If you use your computer from home then you will want FAT32 NFTS has more security features and doesn't have as many file coruption problems. But it's a lot slower and more complex. FAT32 is fast and reasonably reliable. and you don't need to know anything about it.!!! Most people use FAT32 |
roofus (483) | ||
| 110771 | 2003-01-03 21:00:00 | Brand new hard drive and Win XP? It's easy as, fergie.... just make sure your BIOS is set to boot from the CD, pop the Win XP CD in the CD drive, reboot then follow the wizard all the way. It will ask you what you want to do and if you botch things up a bit it doesn't matter, you can just scrub what you've done (ie delete all the partitions) and redo it until you get it right. Once you've set up your partititions you tell it to install Win XP on the C: drive and it will tell you it needs formatting first -- let it. Once it is installed you will need to reformat each partition before being able to use them but you don't have to do them all at once. Incidentally, why do you want two 5GIG partitions? You won't get 60GIG usuable hard drive space so one of those four partitions will be smaller than what you have listed. That means that if you create the first three sizes then when it gets to the last one you might not have 5GIG left to have it. But like I said you will be able to play around before the OS gets installed. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 110772 | 2003-01-03 21:07:00 | ok, thanks for all that. I think i'll be able to get thro all tht ok! Yeah, i'm going to have 1 10gb instead of the 2 5's now, thanks again |
fergie (424) | ||
| 110773 | 2003-01-03 23:08:00 | Hi Fergie Why don't you split the drive into four quarters that should make things a lot simpler. A :) |
Archibald (180) | ||
| 110774 | 2003-01-03 23:16:00 | also what order are you planing on making the drives? the first one is faster than the last, so make the last one your bulk storage (eg mp3s) drive and the os is on the front drive. 10 gig is a good size for XP. mine is set ~5, 15, 20, 20. just enough room on the 5gig to fit XP (at a later date) but most of my programs are on the 15gig. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 110775 | 2003-01-03 23:27:00 | hi again Wot i was thinking of doing was.... 20gb (XP and apps), 30gb (games) 10gb (mp3s and anything else) that ok, also, how big is Linux and Win98se? (approx) cheers |
fergie (424) | ||
| 110776 | 2003-01-03 23:33:00 | Tweak'e Is it better to install Office and other Apps on the same partician as the OS? or on a separate one. |
Archibald (180) | ||
| 110777 | 2003-01-03 23:47:00 | tweak'e: For the sake of education can you explain what the benefit is of installing your programs on the 15 gig drive? If you had to reformat the drive your OS is on, won't you have to also reinstall all the programs on the other drive? Surely they won't work otherwise? Or am I getting confused again . . . . . ? Archibald: I have heard that Office should be installed on the same partition as the OS as it tends to "get its hooks" into it in a big way . fergie: Have a think about keeping all your data (documents, files, favorites, emails, etc) on its own partition for security . You won't lose all your data if you need to reformat any of the other drives then . |
Susan B (19) | ||
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