hard drive

[modelflyer]

Hi,All i am new to this forum i have a dell dimension c521
and i have done a format of my hard drive but in hayst
i have deleted all my partitions and how many MB were
in each prtition i know i am an (idiot but screeming babys dont help)
my hard drive IS 250GB
I have windows XP home SP2
i cant remember if i had 2 or 3 partitions
so please i need the HELP of you clever people
can anybody tell me how many MB i should put
in my partitions. I have put make and model as someone
may have the same model
PLEASE HEEEELP
THANKS
PS i am thinking of puting C D E drives

 

[johnb35]

2 partitions is sufficient. 1 big enough for the operating system and programs and the other partition for your personal data. I would choose your first partition to be anywhere from 50-75 gb for OS and programs, and then the balance of the drive for your data.

 

[S.T.A.R.S.]

LoL it depends what you will be working on your computer.If you are not sure what you will be doing on your computer in the future,just create one partition that uses the entire hard disk drive and then you won't have to worry about missing free space in the future.Or create 2 or more partitions and make their size as much as you want.Depends what you will be doing.We can't know what you will be doing in the future
If you will use your computer just for movies,musics and pictures then make the C: partition to be about 10 GB and the D: partition to be all the rest.But if you will use your computer for many other things and you are planning to install many programs,games and so on then make your C: partition much bigger....let's say...60 GB at least because you never know what you are going to install and how much space you will need for that you are installing.And make the D: partition as biggest you can by using ALL the left free space which you did not use for the C: partition.

Anyway like I said...if you are unsure what you will be doing on your computer in the future,just create one single partition that uses the entire hard disk drive and on that way you don't have to worry about any missing free space in the future,unless you fill your entire HDD and want to fill it more then that