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- From: Cristóbal Palmer <cristobalpalmer AT gmail.com>
- To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Partitioning Advice
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:53:43 -0400
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
-
[internetworkers] Partitioning Advice,
cmccarthy1, 09/12/2009
- Re: [internetworkers] Partitioning Advice, Cristóbal Palmer, 09/12/2009
-
Re: [internetworkers] Partitioning Advice,
Jim Ray, 09/13/2009
- Re: [internetworkers] Partitioning Advice, cmccarthy1, 09/13/2009
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