setting up the hard drive

undefinedundefinedundefinedHi Folks, I'm just about to start my first PC build and wondered if anyone could advise me about setting up the hard drive. I'm using a seagate 80GB and will be installing XP Home, I'm interested to know about the best way to set up the hard drive with regard to partitions and back up facilities. If anyone can give me any advice ( suitable for a newbie like me to follow lol ) or direct me to an article about this I'd be very grateful. I'll be selling the PC to a good mate of mine so I need to get it right lol, Regards Beech

 

What will be the system specs? (processor, mobo etc...)

Partitioning: It's a matter of personal taste and practicality. Your call. If you want to keep things like mp3's on a seperate partition go for it. There is no real performance boost if thats what you're looking for. I would definitely spend a few more bucks and get XP Pro, and unless you plan to dual-boot with Win98, use NTFS when you format the HD.

Backups: What do you want to backup, whole system? or just things you might download etc.. You can use XP's system restore or opt for third party programs that will let you back up to other media like CD-Rom and DVD's (if you have a burner).

 

Setup one partition for OS & basic programs minimum 10g , I'd go atleast 20 or 25g, then the rest another partition for storage, you can set up more than one partition for storage.
For XP/XP home/W2K, format with NTFS file system.

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=25831
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33

For Back up look here:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads3.html