[color:"orange"] better double-check with Mea about that. that aussie gal knows her stuff. [/color]
You flatterer you long beard <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
But yes basically Janggut is correct, as for his saying keep 1 partition on Fat 32, well I did the first time around too, but after a while it just became a pain, in regards to speed ... hmm like Linux runs on a type of NTFS, so for the non-believers, well linux has (on avarage) about 2 -3 million lines of code, WinXP somewhere along the neighborhood of 80 million lines of code, and considering
that, it is amazing that XP works at all, but for that reason only, I would choose NTFS anytime.
@Goldy Janggut is correct in saying that you can partition your drive with data on it, as long as you use Partition Magic or similar, heck I have done it with 3 different OS's installed (on separatePartitions of course)and shifted the various OS's to C: just to see which was more suited to me.
@Egin yes Ghosting is slow (painfully so at times) but safe, whereas moving files from an Old drive to a new drive, after installing the OS, means that
any programs you had installed you will have to re-install, so in the long run it takes the same amount of time.
For instance on my Utility drive I have something like 50 -60 programs installed and to re-install them update them to current versions is well a nightmare <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
However it is up to you, 1 more thing Partition Magic is basically made for dummies (no insult intended) so it is extremely easy to use just follow the prompts <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
Oh and if you look around you can probably fins a 30 day trial demo either on the net or on a magazine disk <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
