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Subject: Re: Partition an installed xp prof 80 gig harddrive or not?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 06:27:47 11/20/02

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On November 20, 2002 at 01:37:29, Brian Katz wrote:

>I am receiving a brand new computer with xp professional loaded. Office is not
>on it as I already have the 2000 office software on cd to load without having to
>pay for it again.
>It is an Athlon 2600+ with 1 gig pc2100  266 DDR RAM
>Is it really necessary to partition the Drive? with the main use being Chessbase
>products?
> Would it be better to reinstall xp proff. and partition as I am installing
>rather than to do it while the operating system is already loaded?
>Or should I just forget about partitioning and run it with one drive.
>The 9 disc Nalimov tablebases will be loaded soon.
>Brian Katz

My Compaq computer came with the hard drive already partitioned.  The smaller
partition was devoted to storing information which might be needed for recovery
if the computer were to crash.  This sounds like a good idea to me if it works.

Bob D.



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