I have the following - 2 hard drives (a 20gb and a 6 gb - not a lot by today's standard
- but plenty for me), a CDRW and Windows XP.  What would be the most efficient
way to set up my hard drives (in real terms - not theoritical performance).

Some thoughts...

1.  I would like advice on Windows XP partition size.
2.  Should programs be in the same partition as Windows?  Same drive?  If not,
would there really be much of an increase in performance?
3.  For sure data will be in a different partition - but should that partition be on a
separate drive?
4.  Does XP use swap files?  If so, should they be in a separate partion?  Separate
drive? Will this really make much of a difference in real life performance?

The computer is used mainly for surfing / email, spreadsheets and word processing.
I don't keep a lot of crap on the system so hard drive space is not an issue.

Regards,

Paul Ecclestone

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