Dumb Partition Question

Lino

Lino

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Hey Guys, "yes its me again:D"

As you know I have been using my 250GB for both OS's and Entertainment etc:). Next week I am getting another 250GB drive to put my music on.

The one 250GIG I want to have XP, Vista, Ubuntu, installed on it. (Along with a few games) The other one "new one" want to have all my music etc on it.

Questions are:

1) How big do you think each partition should be for each os? Basically XP for games, Vista for games and linux for sufing, e-mails etc/

2) What file system do you think I should make the 250gig drive? (I already presume the answer will be NTFS but want to hear what all of you say)
 
Well Vista will only install on NTFS AFAIK, but I recommend you create a 80GB NTFS partition for XP and install that first, then install Vista and create a 80GB NTFS partition during vista installation this will give you Vista's bootloader and then the rest of the disk can be used for linux and it should setup your bootloader automatically. :)
 
Oops I should have added, what file system should I make the 250gig new drive (with all my music on), so that it can be read in all three os's easily?

Thanks Dobee
 
If you're installing Ubuntu, versions 7.10 and 8.04 are able to read NTFS straight away. I'd go for that.
 
Thanks guys, will do next week when my drive arrives
 
Yes, NTFS!

The only reason you would use FAT32 anymore is if you plan to install an older Windows OS on it... or read the drive from an Older Windows OS. Some DVD recording machines with USB ports can also only read from FAT32 partitions.

But NTFS is best for speed and stability.

I don't usually make a huge partition for linux, 30 to 50 Gb should be more than enough. all my media and docs are shared from my Windows Partition.
 
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