Guest Sid Elbow Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 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.
Guest John Callaway Posted April 4, 2008 Posted April 4, 2008 XP & 2K on same machine 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. JPC
Guest John Callaway Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Re: XP & 2K on same machine OK, Then what file system would I partition the one data partition to? Will XP recognize a NTFS partition? JPC On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:11:56 -0400, Sid Elbow <here@there.com> wrote: >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.
Guest Sid Elbow Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Re: XP & 2K on same machine John Callaway wrote: > OK, Then what file system would I partition the one data partition to? > Will XP recognize a NTFS partition? Yes, Win2K and XP will both recognise NTFS and FAT32. I would suggest NTFS throughout.
Guest John Callaway Posted April 5, 2008 Posted April 5, 2008 Re: XP & 2K on same machine Thanks! On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:16:42 -0400, Sid Elbow <here@there.com> wrote: >John Callaway wrote: >> OK, Then what file system would I partition the one data partition to? >> Will XP recognize a NTFS partition? > >Yes, Win2K and XP will both recognise NTFS and FAT32. I would suggest >NTFS throughout.
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