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zyg, it is really depending on your own need and it is up to you how to make the partitions, but keep in mind that you have to follow the rules below: (just in case you did not know already)
1: Win98 can not read NTFS. In order to enable your Win98 access all the contents on your hard disk, you have to use FAT32 for all the partitions.
2: FAT32 can manage up to maximum 32G for each partition.
However, I do not encourage you to have two OS systems. I suggest you to install WinXP only. For WinXP, you can choose FAT32 or NTFS. According to Hoyle, it is natural to choose NTFS. But my WinXP did not work well on NTFS, I do not know why. After several tries, I re-formated my HD and re-installed it on FAT32, it works perfectly thereafter. (Later I heard that one of my friends had the same experience.) Therefore I suggest you to install WinXP on FAT32. Then the following fact comes to effect: it is economy to have FAT32 partition up to 8G. It will waste a lot of capacity if you have FAT32 partition more than 16G. Thus I suggest you:
C: (16G) WinXP OS and all program files. (It took me 7G for them. Then you have some free space to install more programs.)
D: (16G) My Documents (including music, photo, and personal files, etc.)
E: (16G) Your favorite movies.
F: (16G) ...
G: (16G) ... (I do not know how big your hard disk is, but it is a good idea to use your last partition to save your ghost image for your C drive just in case disaster.) |
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