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Thanks to everyone for the advice on partitioning.  I planned to create two 
partitions, then checked another machine that I was using for similar 
purposes and I had used just one there, and decided to just use one on this 
machine.  I only run one OS (XP) on this machine, and have another machine 
running Ubuntu.

Thanks again to everyone for the help!

Colleen


---- Jim Ray <jim AT neuse.net> wrote: 
> Unless you have a special reason to create an extra partition, I'd keep it 
> simple and just have a single partition and run VMWare Workstation for 
> development of SQL if you have enough RAM. I find it hard to believe that 
> the unit has a 80 GB HD limitation, though.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
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> cmccarthy1 AT nc.rr.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:23 PM
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> Subject: [internetworkers] Partitioning Advice
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks much!
> 
> Colleen
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