Parition Hard Disk

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Mirabel

My OS is Windows XP Home Edition.

I heard that it'll be useful to have partitions for Hard Disk. Why is it so?

I am going to reformat my hard disk. How do I go about partitioning my hard
disk?
 
If you plan on reformatting to partition, on the winxp
format drive screen it will ask on what drive you want to
install the os and at what size. Make whatever
partitions you want at this screen, then install windows
onto one of the partitions. Otherwise if you dont want
to reformat just to partition, I suggest looking at
partitioning clients like partition magic and the like.
 
Mirabel said:
My OS is Windows XP Home Edition.

I heard that it'll be useful to have partitions for Hard Disk. Why is
it so?

I am going to reformat my hard disk. How do I go about partitioning
my hard disk?
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It depends on the size of your hard drive and what is primary use your
computer.
You should allow 8 to 10 gigabytes for the XP partition. When you install
almost any program, the application will place a substantial volume of files
in the Documents and Settings\LocalService\Local Settings\Temp, Temp
internet, Application Data, Program Files/Common Files and Windows folders
even when the setup location is placed on another partition. It will also
allow you to have substantial space for system restore, pagefile[aka
swapfile] and hibernation if enabled.
The rest of the hard drive should be divide into manageable partitions
depending on your backup needs and speed of your system.
If you have a DVD-RW drive, you can make the partitions larger if you backup
to DVD than if you would backup to CDRW. There is no hard and fast rule that
works for all configurations and hopefully you will get other suggestions
that will help define your needs.
One thing I can suggest is if you do not want to purchase third party
partitioning software is to create a partition during the XP setup of not
less than 4 gig [8 to 10 gig suggested] and leave the rest of the hard drive
unallocated empty space. After XP is setup, you can then create partitions
in the empty space without affecting the XP partition.
You boot from the CD and do a clean install.
Click on or copy and paste the link below into your web browser address bar.
How to clean install XP.
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html
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