Hi, I am about to install Vista Home Premium 64-bit for the first time on a new hard drive (single hard drive system) and would like some advice on how to partition the hard drive. The size of the hard drive is 320 GB. For example, how many paritions should I have and, which partition shoud I store games, apps, and music/videos on. Also what size do your recomend for the primary partition (one with OS).

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What OS are you partitioning with? Do you want a separate partition for all of your music and videos to share between OSes? You probably won't be able to share a partition for applications and games due to compatibility issues.

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If you are partioning Vista with Windows XP, then I would keep all of your games / multimedia on the XP partition for sure, mostly because (assuming you own Windows XP games) they won't run in Vista.

Have you considered purchasing an extra drive to conserve space?

Whats the fastest and easiest process to partioning Vista with XP? And safe?

Please start your own thread rather than hi-jacking other's.

I suggest partitioning this way, since it's all fresh, it's easier:

Total Space: 320GB

Windows Vista Installation: 80GB (very generous for plenty of installs)
Music and Movies: 130GB
Software/Games/Backups: 100GB
Ghost Image: ~10GB? (This is a mirror of your installed computer fresh so you can reimage it later)

That's just me though. Of course you can tinker with it. I preferably like to keep the Windows drive as lean as possible since I can reimage that as I please.

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have a look at a program called partition magic, thats what i use, it's really easy n u dont have to of used it before to know what to do

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