On Apr 5, 5:58 am, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> "John Callaway" <jca...@erols.com> wrote in message
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> news:...
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> > What size for each partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for both
> > Win2K pro & XP operating systems? I'm thinking about 15 gig for each
> > with extended partitions for data of equal sizes for each. I would
> > like to keep the os partitions a small as possible. I have
> > a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440
> > @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I loaded Win2K but ran into
> > driver problems so I guess I will have to load XP. A cd with XP &
> > Vista drivers came with the laptop. I would like to still use my old
> > HP flatbed scanner that won't run with XP so I guess I will need to
> > load Win2K also. Any suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.
>
> > JPC
>
> I'd probably just run XP and skip win2k if you can't get the drivers.
> I have my very ancient HP flatbed scanner working just fine with X
you can always resize partitions later.
I would go 20 for xp and 15 for w2k
In any case it will work
What software are you using for the process
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