- Aug 24, 2009
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Okay, I have tried googling for answers but I am getting confused with all the issues about new hdds and xp, and dual booting xp/win7. I am looking for advice on setting up my PC for XP / XP / WIN 7 (or 8) Multi-Boot and what I need to do to deal with any XP / new HDD issues.
So,
based on the info below, I was hoping someone could lay down a list of the issues I need to deal with (and how
) when I take my mid-2009 system and:
- buy a new HDD (or two) and
- do a clean install of XP on it with a ?partition? reserved for Win7/8 OS when I make the jump to a new OS.
Things like:
1) Will I have to worry about aligning my partitions to 4KB boundaries with what I was thinking of doing (info below)?
2) Will XP and Win7 work properly with what I was thinking of doing (info below; I red that having xp/win7 on same hdd is an issue)
3) Do I really need to worry about XP destroying my Win7 Restore points (I read that xp does that each time the Win7 partition is accessed)?
4) Is there a 2 TB drive comparable to the WD1001FALS that still uses 512Byte sectors (so no need for partition aligning)?
5) Are there others issues I need to worry about? Bootloader issues, already dual booting xp when I install win 7/8, etc...
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a) My current system (which I built myself with NCIX help) is:
MB: ASUS P6T SE
CPU: i7 920 D0 2.66 GHz
HDD: a single WD1001FALS Caviar Black 1TB SATA2
b) My current thinking is:
to just to get another 1 or 2, WD1001FALS 1TB drives to hopefully avoid the 4KB sector drives (and sector alignment issues with XP), but I would prefer to get a 2TB drive. (I was considering a SDD but the added info was making my head spin)
c) Partitions I was planning to do was:
DISK 1 (my existing 1TB drive):
C drive - XP ; 256 GB ; rarely used (just for maintenance if req'd)
D drive - XP ; remainder of DISK 1 ; main XP OS partition
DISK 2 (new hdd or 2 new hdd)
E drive - DATA ; 1.25TB or 1TB ; just for data
F drive - RSV'd for WIN7/8 ; ~768GB or 1TB ; reserved partition (or 3rd DISK) for future OS.
Let me know if any more info is needed.
Thanks!
So,
based on the info below, I was hoping someone could lay down a list of the issues I need to deal with (and how
) when I take my mid-2009 system and:- buy a new HDD (or two) and
- do a clean install of XP on it with a ?partition? reserved for Win7/8 OS when I make the jump to a new OS.
Things like:
1) Will I have to worry about aligning my partitions to 4KB boundaries with what I was thinking of doing (info below)?
2) Will XP and Win7 work properly with what I was thinking of doing (info below; I red that having xp/win7 on same hdd is an issue)
3) Do I really need to worry about XP destroying my Win7 Restore points (I read that xp does that each time the Win7 partition is accessed)?
4) Is there a 2 TB drive comparable to the WD1001FALS that still uses 512Byte sectors (so no need for partition aligning)?
5) Are there others issues I need to worry about? Bootloader issues, already dual booting xp when I install win 7/8, etc...
---
a) My current system (which I built myself with NCIX help) is:
MB: ASUS P6T SE
CPU: i7 920 D0 2.66 GHz
HDD: a single WD1001FALS Caviar Black 1TB SATA2
b) My current thinking is:
to just to get another 1 or 2, WD1001FALS 1TB drives to hopefully avoid the 4KB sector drives (and sector alignment issues with XP), but I would prefer to get a 2TB drive. (I was considering a SDD but the added info was making my head spin)
c) Partitions I was planning to do was:
DISK 1 (my existing 1TB drive):
C drive - XP ; 256 GB ; rarely used (just for maintenance if req'd)
D drive - XP ; remainder of DISK 1 ; main XP OS partition
DISK 2 (new hdd or 2 new hdd)
E drive - DATA ; 1.25TB or 1TB ; just for data
F drive - RSV'd for WIN7/8 ; ~768GB or 1TB ; reserved partition (or 3rd DISK) for future OS.
Let me know if any more info is needed.
Thanks!
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