Need help installing xp on new drive

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Hello. I just had the OS crash. Learned a lesson by having no backups, system
restore was off etc etc. Recovery didnt work. Anyways, need some advice for
the best. I just bought a new SATA 3 drive which is 320GB. The drive that I
have been using is a SATA 1.5 drive and 160GB.

Would I see any benefit from installing xp on the new drive since its faster
at 3GB or would it be relatively nominal and the larger drive would be better
to just use for data storage and backups? Or put the os on it on its own
partition etc?

I would like to have a system partition which I didnt before. What would be
a good size for the OS? 20GB? When I install programs etc do they install on
the data partition or the sys? Was wondering how that worked if the programs
installed on the data partition and they write their registry values on the
sys. If thats not the case doesnt seem like 20GB sys partition would be big
enough. Im lost on that one.

Also read that its a good idea to create a paging file on its own partition
and on a seperate drive. I currently have 2GB of RAM but actually have two
more sticks I can install. So would that be a good idea? Create that
partition on the other drive and set it at say 5GB?

Thanks for the help. I really want to do this right since I have the option
now.
This is what I currently have.
XP Pro SP2
Pent 4 3.2 GHz
2GB RAM (with two more sticks i havent installed)
1 160GB SATA 1.5 2004 Drive
1 320GB SATA 3.0 2006 Drive
1 DVD double layer burner
1CDRW burner

Carito
 
The speed of the SATA drive is determined by the chipset on the
motherboard.Does your chipset support the new Speed??
And even if it does...that would be theoretical speed.......it would never
actually achieve its rated speed but it would be slightely faster than the
older SATA...but not that you would actually notice.
A seperate partition for the OS is a good idea but I would go 30gb to leave
room for updates/programs/etc.Most new programs nowadays give you the option
as to where you wish to install to..you just have to point it in the right
direction.They will write thier data to the registry on the OS drive.
Myself I have a partion for the OS,another for programs,another for games
another for Internet/mail another for games and 2 more for saved work and
video/audio files.I used to have my paging file on another drive but did not
see much of a speed improvement with 2GB of DDR installed. Someone else
might have more knowledge on that subject.
peter
 
Thanks for the help. I did end up calling dell and found out that my mb does
not support sata3. Thats ok though. This has been a lesson learned and I
appreciate the help
 
Hi Carito,

Well there is not gonna be any diff using the new 3gb HDD.. I suggest leave
it for Data.. Well if its XP 10GB is more than enough however inn case of
Vista consider 20-25.. By default programs are not installed on system
partition but yes lots of DLL's and other system files are copied by 3rd
party software and also the temporary files pile in the system partition..
But i fell 10 ought to be enough..
 
There should be a jumper on the new sata drive that can force it to use
sata1
See HD manu web site
 
Welcome all .
here you are trying to find out the best practice to Install the new Windows
in your computer and hope you must have understand that what are your actual
requirements and so here I suggest that 10-20 Gb of system areea and about
5GB for paging is sufficient for most of the programes you will execute and
If possible only add the fastest DDR so as to achive maximum performance
without any pagefaults.
 
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