Hi,
I have a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ATA-100 16MB Cache drive coming tomorrow to go with my other fancy new bits (basically a whole new PC).
I currently have 4x 120gb drives of various makes, i think they each have an 8MB cache. They do the job nicely.
I'm going to give two of them to my dad and put the new 250gb one in my new PC, along with 2 of the remaining 120gb ones.
I would maybe like to dual boot XP and Vista, but if not just going to stick with XP.
At present all of the drives have one large partition on them. I guess that's not the best way to keep a fast windows install for long (this one certainly seems to have slowed down terribly recently).
Anyway, if you were going to install XP from scratch, and maybe with a view to putting vista on dual boot afterwards, how would you go about it?
Cheers,
I have a new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB ATA-100 16MB Cache drive coming tomorrow to go with my other fancy new bits (basically a whole new PC).
I currently have 4x 120gb drives of various makes, i think they each have an 8MB cache. They do the job nicely.
I'm going to give two of them to my dad and put the new 250gb one in my new PC, along with 2 of the remaining 120gb ones.
I would maybe like to dual boot XP and Vista, but if not just going to stick with XP.
At present all of the drives have one large partition on them. I guess that's not the best way to keep a fast windows install for long (this one certainly seems to have slowed down terribly recently).
Anyway, if you were going to install XP from scratch, and maybe with a view to putting vista on dual boot afterwards, how would you go about it?
Cheers,
