Hard Drive Management

fluffmyster · 16 May 2009 at 16:41

Hey, I'm building a new PC in a little over a week (my first build, about time :rolleyes:

). Anyway, I really suck at keeping my hard drive organised and was wondering if I could get any tips. I will have both XP and Vista on - should I have a partition for XP, one for Vista, one for data (images, videos etc.) and one for programs (or should I have a partition for each OS for programs). Vista will probably be the main OS. How much space should I dedicate in general for everything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

CaseyChaos · 16 May 2009 at 17:29

Depends how big your drive is, are you planning on putting games in there as well?

Without games 80GB for each OS should be more than plenty, I'm using 40GB for Vista OS and programs once I don't include games or music.

fluffmyster · 16 May 2009 at 17:37

Yeah sorry forgot to mention that. I've been looking a the WD 640Gb Caviar Black. I will be playing games but do not have masses of data so it's still a lot more space than I need. I think i might just go ahead with what I planned and adjust the partition sizes when or if I need to.

CaseyChaos · 16 May 2009 at 17:49

Maybe have 2 60GB partitions for your OS's and that leaves you 520GB for data, you can always install your games into that partition as well.