Installing OS in seperate partition

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From: MP (pokjob_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 03:42:06 GMT

Hi

I'm building a new PC with 1 physical HDD (200 GB). I plan on creating a few
partitions on it...

Question:

Is there an advantage to installing WinXP PRO in its own partition (used
only for the OS)? Example -- create a 30GB partition which would only be
used for XP -- all other software and apps would be installed in a different
partition.

I thought this would make reloading the OS easier later on if I had to
since --theoretically -- the other partitions could remain untouched if I
had to reinstall Windows...

Please advise if this is worth while... If so How big of a partition should
be allocated for XP PRO? Thanks in advance.

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