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[Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:23 PM,  <cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just replaced a dead hard drive in a Compaq Presario R3000Z.  The new 
> drive is 80 GB, the largest that this machine will accommodate.  Do any of 
> you have suggestions on how to partition it?  The machine is a home machine 
> which I use mostly for MS Office, email, Web browsing, and a little bit of 
> SQL Server and MySQL work.  I'm pondering just creating two partition, one 
> for the OS (XP) and one for everything else.  Is there any reason that I 
> should create more than these two?
>

C:\ for XP and applications and D:\ for user data is
traditional/normal/good. Only reason to make a third one is if you
plan to do a dual boot system with XP and another OS.

Cheers,
-- 
Cristóbal M. Palmer
"The fun thing is to try to persuade others to share your opinions
about what rules and what sucks. Nothing is more fun than evangelism."
  --Larry Wall