I'm putting together my new pc this afternoon, new hardware and winxp-home.
Can i boot from the CD and have that partition and format the hdd? someone in the forum mentioned that xp-pro could do this, is the home version any different in that respect?
Also, will it give me the choice for ntfs vs. fat32? Any recommendations? i don't know much about ntfs, is it just different cluster size?
i have a single 40gb (IDE) drive, and i'm planning on having an OS partition, and probably 2 or 3 others. I'll do a custom install of windows, and i'm pretty picky about what goes on, but i'm not sure how much space to give it, i figured 2gb would be enough for it. anyone see any problems with that setup? Should I make a dedicated partition for a swap file?
well, i think thats it for now. hopefully none of the components are DOA.
Can i boot from the CD and have that partition and format the hdd? someone in the forum mentioned that xp-pro could do this, is the home version any different in that respect?
Also, will it give me the choice for ntfs vs. fat32? Any recommendations? i don't know much about ntfs, is it just different cluster size?
i have a single 40gb (IDE) drive, and i'm planning on having an OS partition, and probably 2 or 3 others. I'll do a custom install of windows, and i'm pretty picky about what goes on, but i'm not sure how much space to give it, i figured 2gb would be enough for it. anyone see any problems with that setup? Should I make a dedicated partition for a swap file?
well, i think thats it for now. hopefully none of the components are DOA.