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Answer» I'm replacing an old hard drive in a friends computer (SMART failure predicted), so I'm basically copying the hard drive. It's an 80 GB Western Digital IDE drive, to run Windows XP. My question is about PARTITIONING- should i just keep the same settings for it when I format it or should I be doing something different? Should I just split it into two- 40 gig for system, 40 for data? Obviously I'm a rookie, any help is much appreciated. Thanks! ~JIf you have a seperate partition for data, make sure that your data fies, target the drive letter that designates your data partition. Otherwise the data files and downloads go to the partitionm with you OS on it. Quote from: five40josh on January 22, 2009, 02:35:18 PM I'm replacing an old hard drive in a friends computer (SMART failure predicted), so I'm basically copying the hard drive. It's an 80 GB Western Digital IDE drive, to run Windows XP. My question is about partitioning- should i just keep the same settings for it when I format it or should I be doing something different? Should I just split it into two- 40 gig for system, 40 for data? Obviously I'm a rookie, any help is much appreciated. Thanks! ~J if your copying the drive I don't THINK partitioning the disk is going to make a differences....how you going to get just the data stuff onto the data partition when copying?? I am assuming you mean imaging...NOT COPYING... GOOD LuckAn image program will LET you 'clone' the whole drive. Some will EVEN let you change the size of the target partition(s). Norton Ghost is one, but there are many others. You can even do this inside of live Ubuntu, but it is very slow. And it annoys the NTFS so that Windows will do a chkdsk on start up. But it works. And it is FREE. http://www.ubuntu.com/

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I'm replacing an old hard drive in a friends computer (SMART failure predicted), so I'm basically copying the hard drive. It's an 80 GB Western Digital IDE drive, to run Windows XP.

My question is about PARTITIONING- should i just keep the same settings for it when I format it or should I be doing something different? Should I just split it into two- 40 gig for system, 40 for data?

Obviously I'm a rookie, any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!
~JIf you have a seperate partition for data, make sure that your data fies, target the drive letter that designates your data partition. Otherwise the data files and downloads go to the partitionm with you OS on it. Quote from: five40josh on January 22, 2009, 02:35:18 PM

I'm replacing an old hard drive in a friends computer (SMART failure predicted), so I'm basically copying the hard drive. It's an 80 GB Western Digital IDE drive, to run Windows XP.

My question is about partitioning- should i just keep the same settings for it when I format it or should I be doing something different? Should I just split it into two- 40 gig for system, 40 for data?

Obviously I'm a rookie, any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!
~J

if your copying the drive I don't THINK partitioning the disk is going to make a differences....how you going to get just the data stuff onto the data partition when copying?? I am assuming you mean imaging...NOT COPYING...

GOOD LuckAn image program will LET you 'clone' the whole drive.
Some will EVEN let you change the size of the target partition(s). Norton Ghost is one, but there are many others.

You can even do this inside of live Ubuntu, but it is very slow. And it annoys the NTFS so that Windows will do a chkdsk on start up.
But it works.
And it is FREE.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

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