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Witchsmeller
Hi,
I've got a 1.8 GHz P4 with 256 Meg of RAM, I use the machine for playing
music, ripping CDs & DVDs, accessing the Internet & Newsgroups (binary &
text), etc but not for playing games.
I've just bought a Seagate 120 Gig Baraccuda HD as my current 40 Gig master
& 30 Gig slave drives are almost at capacity. Can anyone recommend a good
partitioning strategy for me?
My current idea is to have a small C: drive solely for Win XP Pro, a D:
partition solely for applications / programs & E: & F: partitions for data
& backup; all NTFS formatted. It's going to be a big job so I want to get
it right first time.
Also if anyone can warn me of any gotchas I'd appreciate it, I'm removing
my current master HD intact so I can always just swap that back in if I
forget something. The one problem I can't find a solution to is how to
transfer my existing Norton Antivirus (2003) updates subscription to my new
box as it's got several months to run, do I just have to write it off &
reinstall from scratch?
TIA, Jase.
I've got a 1.8 GHz P4 with 256 Meg of RAM, I use the machine for playing
music, ripping CDs & DVDs, accessing the Internet & Newsgroups (binary &
text), etc but not for playing games.
I've just bought a Seagate 120 Gig Baraccuda HD as my current 40 Gig master
& 30 Gig slave drives are almost at capacity. Can anyone recommend a good
partitioning strategy for me?
My current idea is to have a small C: drive solely for Win XP Pro, a D:
partition solely for applications / programs & E: & F: partitions for data
& backup; all NTFS formatted. It's going to be a big job so I want to get
it right first time.
Also if anyone can warn me of any gotchas I'd appreciate it, I'm removing
my current master HD intact so I can always just swap that back in if I
forget something. The one problem I can't find a solution to is how to
transfer my existing Norton Antivirus (2003) updates subscription to my new
box as it's got several months to run, do I just have to write it off &
reinstall from scratch?
TIA, Jase.