Fresh clean install

I have seen and done what you mention in #1. It sounds like a great idea at first but too often it ends up being a situation where lots of programs are filling up the C: drive and the other partition is wide open (and huge). I believe that you arebetter off doing #2.

You may want to setup a second partition just in case you want to install another OS and dual boot. In this case I would just allow 4GB-10GB.

I would go with #2 right now your drive is a fat 32 I think or it should be so go with 2 big drives.

I have 2 harddrives on my tower both are fat 32.

I would do the first option, but use a 15gig for the c drive and use the rest for scratch/other os space

I've usually just gone 50% and 50% on drives 40 gigs and smaller.

Only hang up with 1 is you end up spending more time reconfiguring programs to use the space on the other partition or you install a couple good sized programs and you're spent on space there.

Mark

Hi,

Personally I go for #1, but I allow much more room for installed programs. My current 40Gb drive is split down the middle (20Gb each partition)

The benefit of this is that if you need to re-install the OS for any reason, then you leave allyour data intact on the other partition - even if you reformat/reinstall.

You have to be dilligent about where you put your data, though. There's no point in having the two partitions if you dont use the second one.

Cheers,
Tim.

Your best bet is number 2 but keep the partition size around 6 gig for c:\ because it will be faster to defrag and faster to load up. Also alot of people recomend reloading windows at least once a year and if you install and uninstall alot of software every 6 months would be better. When you load new software it gives lets you deside which drive to put it on. I put it on d or e that way if the c:\ drive becomes corrupt or to slow I reformat and put my short cuts back.

Another option is 3 partitions. I have 98se on one and XPpro on another and data and stuff on the third.

Personally I only partition a drive when I know I will be booting into mutiple os'es. I have a 60 gig drive running Win 98 SE and my server is a 30 gig running Server 2000, 98 SE and XP. I use the same practice at work.

#2 is the only way to fly unless of course you are trying to use multiple OS! In any case they are more selectable with partition commander type software.

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