Re: New Win XP Installation

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Looks good but install the programs to the same partition as the operating
system. There's no advantage to do otherwise. Make the operating system
partition 15 gB (or larger depending on needs)

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Dave" wrote:
| I'm currently running Win XP Home SP2 on one 120 gb hard drive with a
second
| 120 gb hard drive used for backup images. It's been quite a while since I
| installed Win XP and I was thinking about doing a clean XP install and
| reinstalling all of my programs. I've read recommendations about
installing
| Windows in it's own partition. I was wondering if the following would be
a
| good configuration:
|
| drive 1 C: Window XP Home
| D: Programs and data
|
| drive 2 E: Backup images
|
| Does anyone have any input, ideas or recommendations?
|
|
| Thanks
| Dave
|
|
|


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