Partitioning new drive

[trotter]

Hi Folks
Thinking of buying a new drive, and wanted to know if there are any benifits in creating 2 partitions on the drive? one for the O/S and one for data. If yes, what sort of size for the O/S partition?
Will be using win xp pro. and the drive is a 250 gig Segate.
Any help would be great

 

[rpstewart]

Personally I tend to use a partition of about 50Gb for the OS and any installed apps with the remainder of the disk for data, that gives plenty of headroom on the C: drive so you could get away with less. I had about 15Gb on my laptop at one point but that ended up being too small.

There's no performance benefit really but what it does allow you to do is format and reinstall without touching your data which is far easier than recovering from backup DVDs.

 

[Android]

I use a 4Gb C: partition with a 1.5Gb Pagefile and thiers plenty of free space (1.65Gb). Keeps things running nice and fast on my u320 Atlas II SCSI

 

[trotter]

Personally I tend to use a partition of about 50Gb for the OS and any installed apps with the remainder of the disk for data, that gives plenty of headroom on the C: drive so you could get away with less. I had about 15Gb on my laptop at one point but that ended up being too small.

There's no performance benefit really but what it does allow you to do is format and reinstall without touching your data which is far easier than recovering from backup DVDs.

Thanks for that mate seems like sound advice. I like the idea of being able to format the C: drive without touching the data.

 

[trotter]

I use a 4Gb C: partition with a 1.5Gb Pagefile and thiers plenty of free space (1.65Gb). Keeps things running nice and fast on my u320 Atlas II SCSI

A bit out of my league I think. Do you need a pagefile for a drive that fast