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To: doniam who wrote (4074)	12/10/1998 2:44:00 PM
From: maouse	Respond to of 14778

ps. the D: drive will be your next real drive letter, not an extended partition drive letter. 4-2-4-2 would be my suggestion...

To: doniam who wrote (4074)	12/10/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Spots	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Partitions. There are probably as many different answers as there are ways to crash Windows. Personally I prefer large partitions, and all my drives have only one except the "C" drive (master HD on primary controller), which has a small FAT partition for booting DOS an a large NTFS partition. This causes me its share of grief, as will your scheme because the partitions won't get letters the way you have written them. What you wrote ------------- HD 1 C D E F G HD 2 H What you'll get --------------- HD 1 C E F G H HD 2 D Meaning drives E ... will change letters if you add or remove a HD, and you have to be prepared to deal with that. Another point. You can only put four primary partitions on one HD, so you will have to have an extended partition. You can't boot from an extended partition unless you use a boot manager. Things to think about. I don't know if Fat32 will go above 8meg. Anyone? If not, you will, of course, need at least two. There's no particular reason to put the swap file in its own partition (though it is a good idea to size it manually so you can keep it unfragmented). A reason not to is to be able to grow it without changing the partition. These are random thoughts. If I had a good clear answer, I could have given it instead of rambling <g>. Spots