Hard Drive set up question

[miggetyMike]

I am making a new system drive for my comp and I want some opinions on some things. Its gonna be running 2 os's Win 98 SE and whatever you suggest I have every single os avaliable to me(legitimate) through an aggrement w/ microsoft and my college. But anyways. What is the definate best os. I've been running XP for a while now and wonder just how much of my system's resources its hogging. The second question is about the setup of the actual drive. Should I have just win 98 os on one partition(just the os and nothing more other than page file space) and the same with win XP and have all other program files and stuff in other partitions? Its an 80 gig drive so I got the room. What do you guys suggest?? Thanks.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

I have a 80 giger. Setup per need. Youwill need two partitions for two bootable OS's like windows. For the second OS I recomend windows 2000. Its less hoggy than XP but just as stable and more game friendly aswell. PLUS drivers are more mature and most flaws have already been weeded out. And the biggy-no stupid activation ****.:p

Mine is setup like this.
80gig 1 HDD 3 partitions.
Partition 1 = Drive C 20gig Windows ME (hey its what I got)
Partition 2 = Drive D 20gig Win XP pro (Once again-prefer 2k)
Partition 3 = Drive E Storage and backup 40gig

I had 2k but my cd went bum. Oh well. So I bought XP pro thinking upgrading would be better-ha. As for the partitions setup and OS config. I love it! Cause if windows-errr I mean WHEN windows crashes I can reload the os-format whatever without fear of wipeing my important data like home movies I transfered to digital from cam corder and such. All my drivers for chipset-video-sound and everything else, is right there. No re-downloading everything cause drive E is away from OS. Plus since I have Partition magic I can resize the partitions sizes without reloading anyhting. So if I need 30gig now on XP no prob. I just adjust it some. No problems and have been running this way a looong time.:D

[BipolarBill]

Originally posted by miggetyMike
I've been running XP for a while now and wonder just how much of my system's resources its hogging. Now that's a crazy thing to be curious about. The OS needs what it needs. What are you gonna do - dump your OS in favor of applications? How are you going to run your apps?

If you have to ask about resource usage, you need more memory. Simple. You can turn off the "eye candy" in System > Advanced > Performance. You can turn off selected services too - just do your research.

Although Win2K is a leaner OS, it is not faster. XP really pops with the right hardware and can run more stuff than Win2K.

Win9x bloze. :mad:

[AllGamer]

What i wonder is

What kind of PC he's really trying to setup

a FileServer, or a Game machine

Win98 Dual boot, in an Office enviroment with any OS you want....

hmmm..... smells something here.... :p

:t

[miggetyMike]

Actually I need to keep win 98 on a partition for audio recording, Lexicon never got around to extending the drivers for the audio card. And I was simply curious if my system could be running faster. Thats all.