installing

[tony]

When installing xp, is it a better practice to create a
partiotion for the OS?

Or is creating one big partiotion (30 gig, 40 gig) ok?

Thanks very much

[Nicholas]

Windows XP performs and runs best on a single partition formatted NTFS.

NTFS Preinstallation and Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/storage/ntfs-preinstall.asp

Benchmarking on Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/benchmark.asp


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Nicholas

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[Mike Brearley]

It depends on what you do with your system. I encode a lot of videos which
creates large temporary files and large final files from the encoding.
Because of this constant writing/deleting over and over, my drive becomes
extremely fragmented. I wouldn't want that to happen on my system drive, so
I have a second partition dedicated for that.

In my experience, creating a second partition is best if you frequently test
programs (install/uninstall) or do anything that ends up creating larger
size temporary files. Some even leave the system drive alone and dedicated
for the OS and system files and install everything on the second partition.
It's a personal preference really.

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Thanks,
Mike


"tony" > wrote in message
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> When installing xp, is it a better practice to create a
> partiotion for the OS?
>
> Or is creating one big partiotion (30 gig, 40 gig) ok?
>
> Thanks very much