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Help Please?! · 02-19-2007, 02:26 PM

Well I've just ordered a new hard drive, a 320GB Hitachi DeskStar... I'm going to reinstall Windows XP Home Edition onto it and I'd like to partition it into two parts, I'm going to store heaps of music, videos, games and other on my new drive.

Could You tell me how I should divide the drive into partitions, since I don't know most of that?(meaning: of what size should they both be, what file systems I should choose and some other things I should know before I start working on the reinstall stuff and all that)

By the way, can I have 2 windows Xp's on both of my drives? I want to keep windows on my old drive until I transfer important files on my clean installed XP on the new drive.(It's an OEM version if it changes anything)

Thanks in advance.

God I can't wait till my HDD arrives.

02-19-2007, 02:26 PM	#1 (permalink)
Help Please?! Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 94 OS: Windows 7 Ultimate RC1/Back to Vista for now, no idea what's next, follow this name for spicy news.	I need some help with a new hard drive. Well I've just ordered a new hard drive, a 320GB Hitachi DeskStar... I'm going to reinstall Windows XP Home Edition onto it and I'd like to partition it into two parts, I'm going to store heaps of music, videos, games and other on my new drive. Could You tell me how I should divide the drive into partitions, since I don't know most of that?(meaning: of what size should they both be, what file systems I should choose and some other things I should know before I start working on the reinstall stuff and all that) By the way, can I have 2 windows Xp's on both of my drives? I want to keep windows on my old drive until I transfer important files on my clean installed XP on the new drive.(It's an OEM version if it changes anything) Thanks in advance. God I can't wait till my HDD arrives. Last edited by Help Please?!; 02-19-2007 at 02:37 PM.