I'm in the process of building a new system with a 40 gig hard drive. I want to set the drive up as two partitions, one about 2 gig and the other whatever's left. I'd like to install Win ME in its own partition so that if I have to do a reformat and reinstall Windows I won't lose my apps, documents, etc. (Yeah, I do backups but it's still a pain to replace everything.) What I'd like to know is, which partition should I use for Windows, C: or D:? Thanks, David P.

C: always.... since your BIOS looks for the operating system on C:

The boot files will always be installed in the first partition, which DOS labels C:, but you can install the rest of the OS on any partition you like. I would recommend making at least one more partition though, since large partitions under FAT32 are not very efficient. This is how I have my 30GB drive partitioned: C: 8GB Windows D: 20GB Program Files and games E: 2GB Backup, documents, etc

C:\ give it atleast 5GB with a 40GB hd i would go 10GB. Install all of windows on C:\along with your software. Keep all data on D:\. Might think about going a step further and creating a 3rd partition & using nortons ghost to make an image of your C;\ partition once you get all your apps installed and all your settings the way you like them. Makes for easy reinstall.

hello you should have at least 10 gigs for your o/s to run on and set up two more partions like sagested above and get norton ghost its well worth haveing.and you should have a 7 gig partion to put norton ghost drive image on as its an excat copy of your m.e operateing system . system restore works for most miner screw ups and even some majore ones but your ghost image is for use in place of re format it gives you back a complete running up to date of makein running system.you can use ghost copy and be running agian in 1/2 hour where as a reformat might take you days to get rvry thing going and up dated and installed agian. have a nice day if(GetCookie('computingnet_image') == 'yes') { document.write(''); }

Thanks, everyone, especially for the suggestion about Norton Ghost. I already have it but I hadn't thought about using it that way. Great idea! I'll probably set up a 5-10 gig C: partition for Windows; a 20 gig or so D: partition for apps, data, etc.; and an E: partition for the Ghost image. Best wishes, David P.