i just got a sony laptop and dont know why it has a 40gig hard drive partitions in 3. partitions 0 is about 5gigs and partitions 1 is 15gigs(windows XP pro) and partitions 2 is 20gigs....is it for it to hibernate but thats about 600mb(i think thats all it needs).....Im wanting to know becasue im having to reinstall windows XP.....so do i leave it the way it is or just to two 20gigs partitions? thanks to any info

 

do what you want with it, but I would prefer the 20/20

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try to take this to the basement.

 

you dont need a seperate partition with xp for the hibernate feature to work. You just need one partition. I would run fdisk and clear out all partitions. Then install xp and it'll ask you to format the drve before install. Format using NTFS!! Its the best fiile system. Then you shoudl be straight!

If u need more answers..just ask!

Dave

 

Don't use NTFS, its a waste of time. Go with Fat32 .. that way if something messed up you can read your hdd with a dos boot disk. NTFS isn't recognized by DOS and you end up screwed, take my personal advice on this.

 

fat32 is more proned to crashes(file system wise).

but ur right about not beng able to read it. You'll need a ntfs reader such as "ntfs pro"...which most people do not have on hand.

My personal advice is still ntfs...with xp you'll most likely NEVER run into a problem if you take proper "computer maintenence".

Dave