2 new HDD's, need help with cloning/partitioning

Anyone??

AFAIK if you want to do it w/o re-installing XP then you'll have to create a primary partition on one of the new drives that EXACTLY matches the size of your current OS partition.

I guess you could use drive image and partition magic, but I don't see why you'd need to. I'd use fdisk in dos to create the partitions and Norton Ghost to clone the OS partition (actually I'd re-install XP altogether, but that's just my preference).

As for size and amount of partitions it's really a matter of personal choice. I like to have my os and apps on one partition (15.9gb) games on another and all my mp3s on a further seperate partition. If you're doing video editing you'll probably want a seperate partition for that too. And then there's all those other things to consider... dual-booting, Linux, Longhorn, FAT32/NTFS etc etc

There's some good advice on partitioning strategies and FDISK over at radified.com:

FDISK:
<A HREF="http://fdisk.radified.com/" target="_new">http://fdisk.radified.com/&lt;/A>

Partitioning strategies:
<A HREF="http://partition.radified.com/" target="_new">http://partition.radified.com/&lt;/A>

You don't have to write a drive image back to the same size parition that it came from.

Only two things are significatly important performance wise. Put your OS in a small partition ~10GB on the first drive. Put your pagefile on the other HD (doesn't need it's own partition if you defrag it with PerfectDisk or O&O Defrag).

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