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John Callaway wrote:
> What size for each partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for both
> Win2K pro & XP operating systems? I'm thinking about 15 gig for each
> with extended partitions for data of equal sizes for each. I would
> like to keep the os partitions a small as possible. I have
> a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440
> @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I loaded Win2K but ran into
> driver problems so I guess I will have to load XP. I would like to
> still use my old HP flatbed scanner that won't run with XP so I guess
> I will need to load Win2K also. Any suggestions to achieve this will
> be appreciated.
Depends a lot on what applications you wish to load (only you know that)
but 15 G for each OS partition is do-able.
However, it sounds as if one partition (XP) will be the dominant OS
while the other is only used for a few things you can't do with XP ...
notably your scanner (and I guess some sort of graphics program to go
along with it). In that case, it would make more sense to make a
relatively small partition for that (5 - 7 G) and increase the size of
the other OS or data partitions.
The same reasoning applies to the data partitions ... however, you
shouldn't need a data partition for each OS. A single data partition
could be happily shared and would be more efficient and flexible.
> What size for each partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for both
> Win2K pro & XP operating systems? I'm thinking about 15 gig for each
> with extended partitions for data of equal sizes for each. I would
> like to keep the os partitions a small as possible. I have
> a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440
> @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I loaded Win2K but ran into
> driver problems so I guess I will have to load XP. I would like to
> still use my old HP flatbed scanner that won't run with XP so I guess
> I will need to load Win2K also. Any suggestions to achieve this will
> be appreciated.
Depends a lot on what applications you wish to load (only you know that)
but 15 G for each OS partition is do-able.
However, it sounds as if one partition (XP) will be the dominant OS
while the other is only used for a few things you can't do with XP ...
notably your scanner (and I guess some sort of graphics program to go
along with it). In that case, it would make more sense to make a
relatively small partition for that (5 - 7 G) and increase the size of
the other OS or data partitions.
The same reasoning applies to the data partitions ... however, you
shouldn't need a data partition for each OS. A single data partition
could be happily shared and would be more efficient and flexible.