Partition Sizes for Dual Booting XP&Vista

[ltbrain13]

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?

 

[dougery]

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?

 

[ltbrain13]

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-digital-velociraptor-wd3000glfs-hard-drive-300gb-10000rpm/q/loc/101/207964458.html