*bump*
Its now my turn to join the party
I upgraded my laptop HDD from 20 GB to 120 GB. I had previously partitioned my 20 GB as:
5GB: Windows
0.7GB: Swap (i need it.. the 384 MB ram isnt enough. I just pointed a page file to be at that particular partition instead of C drive)
5 GB: Data
5 GB: Programs
0.3 GB: temp
4 GB: Misc
I know, kinda silly to partition it even though the space was not much
But it was fun to test around. With the 120 upgrade, it'll be similar to kidakaka's setup:
Code:
GB Content
10 Contains the Windows XP system files, MS Office, laptop drivers
and security programs
0.8 Swap partition for Windows
12 Reserved for the Linux OS
0.8 Swap partition for Linux
30 Partition for installed software
55 Partition for data files
10 Partition for miscellaneous uses
1 Temporary partition for TEMP and IE
I'll figure out which will be the primary, extended and logical partitions later. I've done a clean reinstall using the image disks provided. Gonna install SP2 and then SP3 when it finally comes out (hopefully soon). After installing all the updates and drivers, i'm going to create an image using the free DriveImage XML. Next time when I want to reformat the OS, i'll just reinstall that image over C drive
