Re: Hard drive switch

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If you use 15 GBytes for WinXP then I suspect that you're
storing data on drive C:. Not a good idea . . .

XOSL will cope with just about any OS, including Vista.


"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use very close to 15GB for XP already, so a 15 gig partition probably
wouldn't be big enough. Actually, my original plan was to not switch the
hard drives around and do a 40, 40, and a 120 (the entire drive).
XP (C:)- I'm using 12.6 now, but sometimes use as much as 14.6GB
(D:) - Using 9.65GB on that large hard drive. I will look into this XOSL.
It will cooperate with Vista?
"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My preference would go like this:
- Partition 1: 15 GBytes, WinXP
- Partition 2: 30 GBytes, Vista
- Partition 3: 75 GBytes, shared data partition
- Partition 4: 15 MBytes, XOSL

A great many people post questions about how to deal
with a multi-booting setup when they need to remove one
OS. This is always a problem when using the native Windoes
boot manager because the OSs are interdependent. It
ceases to be a problem when using a proper boot manager
such as XOSL (which is free!).


"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I'm probably going to reformat and start over because I also intend on
partitioning the 120GB into two 60 gig segments. The other 60-gig
segment
I
plan on putting Windows Vista on as soon as (if it does) it becomes a
public
beta.
"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Travis King" <Anonymous@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an 80 gig hard drive as C and a 120 gig hard drive as D on my
computer. I plan on physically switching the hard drives around so
the
120
gig HD is the master and the 80 gig is the slave. How will this
affect
the
activation on XP? Will this count as a component change or not
since
I'll
still be using the same hard drives. Thanks.



This won't affect your WinXP activation. However, you must make
sure that Windows will continue to run off drive C:.










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