So I've got two hard drives in my box..a 320GB/8mb cache and a 750GB/32MB cache. I'm looking to dual boot Windows 7 and XP 64 bit..With 7 as my primary as I like it much more
Any ways, I am looking for the most efficient way I can partition these drives, something along the lines of OS/Games/Music/Documents?
Also, I'm tryng to figure out which RAID configurations would be suit my interests. Both being in 0 maybe?
I've never had this much space to play around with and I'd like to make it as neat as possible.
So any suggestions of how I can arrange all of this is much appreciated.
Thanks
Message edited by nodaedalus on 08-09-2009 at 07:55:03 PM
The 750 GB HDD will be faster, so you will want Win 7 and your games on it. It's the bigger drive though, so you'll probably want most of your music/documents on it as well. You should probably just do what Jsc said. You could use the 320 GB drive for XP and some storage.
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Reply to Paranoidmage
Well at the moment, They're both booting off of opposite drives (Xp is on the 750/7 on the 320) so I'll switch them around and do something like this?)
-750 - Windows 7 Partition / Games Partition / Music Partition
-320 - Windows XP Partition / Documents Partition
As far as dual booting goes, in order to boot separate OS's I have to load the proper Hard Drive from my BIOS..is there a way to have a "dual OS" bootloader..like a flash screen that allows me to toggle which OS I boot into, instead of BIOS or F8
Its not really an issue, just curious.
Thanks Everyone!!
PS - So no RAID settings, would be preferable?
Message edited by nodaedalus on 08-09-2009 at 10:11:50 PM