Question to answer before deleting the FAT partitions: What is in them, and what facilities do they provide?
I'd suspect boot manager, recovery/rebuild for an OS in C:, and/or drivers for hardware, that are not normally found on a standard OS CD Essential to take a backup of data before getting a partition manager to 'move' the NTFS partition start up by 20GB For speed the OS partition should go at the start of the drive, with infrequently used/large files at the end of the drive Ideally the resulting configuration should be largely biased towards the backup/recovery needs An OS partition of 20GB should compress to 1 DVD for backup JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kylde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 6:20 PM Subject: Re: Reformatting HD > I'd delete the FAT partitions and give the space back to windows, then > create a 2nd ntfs partition, 200gb or so, then you could have docs, > data, app installs, pagefile, temp internet folder, temp paths etc on > the 2nd partition, leaving partition 1 as JUST XP (the OS), making it > much smaller, i.e. easier to backup > > Pete Holsberg wrote on 05/09/2005, 18:10: > > > I was thinking of dividing the NTFS partition into two but I'm not so > > sure I will realize any significant benefits. > > > -- > Regards > > Kylde > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: > CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required. > > -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
