partition sizes ?

I'm about at the end with trying to recover from that trend update weeks back.
I've done 2 re-installs of the OS. 1 should have done the trick.
I'm sitting here with a 152 gig HD, an 8 gig, and a 9 gig HD.
I know that a smaller drive boots up faster.
How about partitions ?

I'm reconsidering doing a complete re-install down to reformatting. The place I
got this from just stuck it on the drive without any partitions. it's all on
one. There is a small 8 gig unformatted partition.

Lots of this installation weren't totally agreeable with me, but I had never
used anything but win98 for the previous 7 years so just took what happened.

If I do reinstall down to formatting, I'd like it to have win98 and XP pro on
the machine. there's still a lot of software on unreadable CD's that I'd like
to get back, the CD software is incompatible with XP. But if I can reinstall
under win98, I can get back a lot I lost.

Any opinions on how to go about this project ?
ie: size of boot partition, how many partitions, I do know this much that win98
has to be the 1st OS installed, then you can install XP.

No considerations about the small individual drives. They're strictly backup
and data drives. They aren't going to be changed or touched.

Just how many gigs is too much for XP, and how many is not enough ?
I'm thinking there's no such thing as too much room for XP. The printer
hardware installed 1000 megs of software. Couple games also installed 1000 megs
each.

I've even considered adding a 300-500 gig HD cause the 152 gig ran down to
about 40 gigs before the trend crash.

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