PLEASE HELP - drive partitions

[jonnyapps]

please help - i've just built my first rig and i've still got my old pc as well. i was wondering if I can create more than one partition on my new 80gig hard drive and copy across my old hard drive onto it keeping another one fresh?? I don't really understand how partitioning works. if i do this will it slow down my using of the clean partition?

 

[Ti133700N]

With my 40gigs HD I use a 5 gigs partition for Windows XP only (and all the stuff that has to be put in the Windows folder, internet explorer plugins, windows updates, internet temp etc... ) One 1.5 gigs for paging ( I set it manually to 1 gig min and 1 gig max ) and the remaning space is another partition for my softwares and games... On my other HD I put the stuff that doesn't have to be installed (Mp3, Zipped files, Movies etc...)

 

[pk1209]

if you mean, can you copy the operatiing system from the old rig to the new one, you can but i wouldnt reccomend it, mainly cos you're using different hardware, and copying over doesnt always work. If you're doing a new install of the OS, you should set aside 10gb for c: drive for windows and do what you want with the other 70. once you've installed the OS you can easy copy the files over from your old rig by using a network (if you have a card in each pc) or plugging the old hard disk into the new one as a slave drive, and just copy the right files, then put the old disk back in the old rig... hope this helps