akroev
April 28th, 2008, 10:01 PM
Sorry if this is the wrong group to ask, but it's the one group that seemed least likely to be off-topic.
I'll explain:
I am about to buy a new laptop, which will be infected with Windows XP. I have not used MS systems on a box of mine since somewhere around 1995, when I had a copy of Windows 3.11 going. For reasons of compatibility, I want to keep XP on the box, so I can handle things like screen calibrations and firmware updates (assuming these are needed). However, I am not going to use the stuff, if I can avoid it.
So, my questions about this are:
1. How many GB should I let XP keep ? (The likely harddisk size will be on the order of 250 GB.)
2. Do I need to do anything from inside XP in connection with reducing the size of the filesystem(s) and the partition(s) ? If so, what ?
3. In a worst-case scenario, where I actually have to _use_ the damned thing, is it practical to let it use, say, an external harddisk for extra storage (avoiding the problem of resizing partitions for transitory situations) ?
TIA!
-akr
(linux user, allergic to MS)
I'll explain:
I am about to buy a new laptop, which will be infected with Windows XP. I have not used MS systems on a box of mine since somewhere around 1995, when I had a copy of Windows 3.11 going. For reasons of compatibility, I want to keep XP on the box, so I can handle things like screen calibrations and firmware updates (assuming these are needed). However, I am not going to use the stuff, if I can avoid it.
So, my questions about this are:
1. How many GB should I let XP keep ? (The likely harddisk size will be on the order of 250 GB.)
2. Do I need to do anything from inside XP in connection with reducing the size of the filesystem(s) and the partition(s) ? If so, what ?
3. In a worst-case scenario, where I actually have to _use_ the damned thing, is it practical to let it use, say, an external harddisk for extra storage (avoiding the problem of resizing partitions for transitory situations) ?
TIA!
-akr
(linux user, allergic to MS)