Re: Partitioning hard drive on WinXP Home reinstallation
- From: "DL" <dl@spoofmail>
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 12:12:28 +0100
Whilst using a separate partition for data I can understand, a separate
partition for trial software is unlikely to achieve anything, as when you
install software the win registry is amended, and this resides in your Win
partition. Ergo you achieve nothing by the separation. Deleting an installed
app by simply deleting its folders will have no impact on the registry, and
could cause other problems.
"CEC4" <CEC4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E97A6608-1624-459E-8F49-3668E20FFFD2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Have a Dell Latitude D600 laptop with 30Gb hard drive, currently
partitioned
> as one basic disk using NTFS. During the OS reinstallation setup process,
> which will be a clean install, I want to re-partition into three areas: 1
> for the OS/startup, other applications, Windows updates; 1 for the data
> created; and 1 small area for trying out new software, eg MS AntiSpyware
> beta1 etc.
>
> Have read and printed out a number of KB articles concerning partitioning
> and formatting the hard drive in Windows XP and various file systems. I
also
> have the Windows XP Inside Out book which contains useful information. It
is
> a mountain of new information for a new user such as myself; it's all
very
> interesting and some of it makes sense, but is all quite overwhelming.
What
> I'd like to know is this:
>
> 1) For the three partition areas mentioned above, what would be an
> appropriate proportion/Mb size for each area, including leaving some
> unallocated space for future changes if needed? What would be the best
> configuration for these areas, ie partition, extended partition, logical
> drive; or partition with two logical drives, etc? I don't understand
this
> part of the process!!!
> 2) As a consequence of your answer to question 1, what file system would
> you suggest as the best, most robust, keeping in mind XP Home does not
have
> encryption only compression. I use an external drive with encryption
> software so don't need the hard drive to have it. I am somewhat confused
> about the pros and cons of FAT and NTFS.
> 3) Would it be better to re-partition and format *before* installation,
> just in case of hard drive recognition problems that may occur? If so,
how
> can I do that easily using XP itself as I don't have any other
partitioning
> software?
>
> --
> CEC4
.
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