I upgraded my HDD for my Thinkpad T41 but I was wondering how much space to devote to XP. I'll have one or two extra partitions for Linux.
I was hoping that heavy XP users would advise me how to partition XP and how much space I should give it. I usually just partition once and put XP there. So, for a 120GB IDE laptop drive, maybe 30GB to 40GB? I usually use Linux but there are times I do go into XP. I don't want to run out of partition space for it. I try to have some multimedia apps installed even in XP!
However, there is some logic for having more than one partition for XP. A partition for system files, one for program files, perhaps, and maybe one more to store data. But, I usually try to store data on a separate hard drive. So, having two partitions for XP would probably be a decent maximum. I guess my question consists of two parts.
1) How much disk space to dedicate to XP?
2) How to break it up or should I bother? If you recommend further partitions, how to partition and what would the specifics be? System files -> C, Programs etc. -> D ???? ETC. ETC?
I guess I should do it like that and then C: would be for System/Windows files and D: would be for everything else. E: would be the CD burner/DVD reader or for additional USB drives when they are plugged in?
Any recommendations?
I was hoping that heavy XP users would advise me how to partition XP and how much space I should give it. I usually just partition once and put XP there. So, for a 120GB IDE laptop drive, maybe 30GB to 40GB? I usually use Linux but there are times I do go into XP. I don't want to run out of partition space for it. I try to have some multimedia apps installed even in XP!
However, there is some logic for having more than one partition for XP. A partition for system files, one for program files, perhaps, and maybe one more to store data. But, I usually try to store data on a separate hard drive. So, having two partitions for XP would probably be a decent maximum. I guess my question consists of two parts.
1) How much disk space to dedicate to XP?
2) How to break it up or should I bother? If you recommend further partitions, how to partition and what would the specifics be? System files -> C, Programs etc. -> D ???? ETC. ETC?
I guess I should do it like that and then C: would be for System/Windows files and D: would be for everything else. E: would be the CD burner/DVD reader or for additional USB drives when they are plugged in?
Any recommendations?
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