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PARTITIONING BRAND NEW HARD DRIVE
Hello everyone,
Allow me to appoligize in advance if this has been covered. Most of what I've found so far is in reference to sectioning a hard drive already in use, where as my application would be partitioning a brand new drive.
I'm installing an IBM Deskstar (60Gb) and would like to have 3x 20Gb partitions. I've read a LOT of information on FDISK, including several approaches. Since you folks seem to be the pro's I thought it best to ask you how to go about this.
I will NOT be running multiple OS's, I am merely sectioning this off for performance reasons. I will be loading WinXP Pro on my computer. If you need more information please let me know.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Allow me to appoligize in advance if this has been covered. Most of what I've found so far is in reference to sectioning a hard drive already in use, where as my application would be partitioning a brand new drive.
I'm installing an IBM Deskstar (60Gb) and would like to have 3x 20Gb partitions. I've read a LOT of information on FDISK, including several approaches. Since you folks seem to be the pro's I thought it best to ask you how to go about this.
I will NOT be running multiple OS's, I am merely sectioning this off for performance reasons. I will be loading WinXP Pro on my computer. If you need more information please let me know.
Thank you in advance for your help.
If you plan on installing windows XP home or Pro...
All you need to do is boot up using the Windows XP CD. And then when you tell it to install, you can also set up partitions. All you really needto set up is one partition for now... make it 20gig or whatever size you want. Leave the rest blank...or make two more partitions. That is up to you. Otherwise install XP...then you can go into Disk Management, and then set up the rest of the partitions.
Here is MSKB's information on partitioning Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q313348
Let me know if there is anything else we can do for ya.
All you need to do is boot up using the Windows XP CD. And then when you tell it to install, you can also set up partitions. All you really needto set up is one partition for now... make it 20gig or whatever size you want. Leave the rest blank...or make two more partitions. That is up to you. Otherwise install XP...then you can go into Disk Management, and then set up the rest of the partitions.
Here is MSKB's information on partitioning Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q313348
Let me know if there is anything else we can do for ya.
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I didn't realize the XP CD gave this option. I'm in the middle of building this computer and haven't played around with XP a whole lot yet. Thank you VERY much for the information, one less thing to worry about....
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Exactly what I was looking for!
Glad i could help ya....! Any other help you need...let me know!
Good luck.