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

Author: Alessandro Damiani

Date: 08:53:37 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

There are partitioning tools around, like PartitionMagic. With such a tool you
don't need to reinstall the OS. At work we got the PCs with Win2000 preinstalled
and used PartitionMagic to create a second partition.

You won't be happy with only one partition, I am sure. ;)

Alessandro



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