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Partition Sizes for Dual Booting XP&Vista

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ltbrain13   05-18-2008 at 04:18:58 AM

I'm building a sytem and plan on dual booting XP 32 and Vista 64.

I have a single 250GB hardrive. (of course all 250 gigs won't show up, hence the tilde~)

What are the best partition sizes for dual booting the systems.

I was going to do 3 partitions:

XP / Vista / Storage
25 / 25 / ~200

Any better ideas or good reason why I should setup up my partitions differently?


Message edited by ltbrain13 on 05-18-2008 at 04:19:57 AM
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dougery   05-18-2008 at 06:33:27 AM
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I would say 25XP/40Vista/rest for storage. If you're building a system, and depending on the age of your 250, why not upgrade the primary drive to a larger capacity/higher performance from the get-go... Say 640GB and use the 250 for storage and backup?

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ltbrain13   05-18-2008 at 08:03:36 AM
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Its a brand new Seagate Sata II 7200.10 for my primary.

I'm not a big fan of hard drives any larger than about 250 gigs.

If something happens to a hard drive I don't want to lose 500 gigs worth of stuff.

I have a few older and slower hard drives to also act as storage for things I won't use much.

I'll just buy another one as I need it. Plus I would really like one of these WD Velociraptors down the road (when they are sub $200). 3.0gb/s 10,000rpm NICE

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-di [...] 64458.html


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