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To: thecow who wrote (19587)5/8/2001 8:17:55 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (4) of 110652
 
Please tell me if this plan makes sense. Any alternative ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

I'm getting a new hard drive tomorrow, a 20 GB 7200 RPM Western Digital.
I currently have an unpetitioned 7200 RPM 45 GB hard drive running Win ME.
Am I correct that since Win ME is using Fat 32 I'm wasting 13 GB because
Fat 32 only recognizes up to 32 GB?

My plan is to transfer what's on my current hard drive to the new hard drive then
partition the current hard drive into 3 petitions, 1 for Win ME, 1 for all my files and
1 for an image of the new hard drive. I then will move everything back to my current
hard drive, format the new hard drive, then partition the new hard drive into 3 partitions,
one for Win 2K using NTFS, one for an image of my current hard drive and another for
more files. I'm only using about 5GB of my current hard drive now so I considered
just partitioning my current hard drive then putting W2K on it's own petition. I decided
not to do that for several reasons. I want to use W2K with NTFS, I wanted the security
of a backup image and spending $100 on a hard drive that increases my PC's capacity
is more palatable to me than spending $55 on Petition Magic which would only divides
up my current capacity.

Well, make sense? Better ideas?

Thanks for any help.

Oh, one last consideration that may or may not matter. My current hard drive is an
IBM that came with my Dell. IBM probably just slaps their name on them I don't
think they're the manufacturer so the Western Digital is probably more reliable.
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