Just personal, I would have 3 partitions for winMe.

C: would be a small 2G partition, only for winMe itself and other MS updates
stuff ...

D: data partition, with all important data on it (eg. documents, saved game
backup, downloads)

E: partition for your software installation.

right now I have 4 similar partitions (one for pagefile only) on my win2k
machine (I'll never allow win9x touch my HDD every again, Never XP either
unless MS gave up the attempt to control users' freedom of hardware/software
on XP).

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "unclerichard" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Partitioning HD


> Hi Folks: It's time for me to again clean my HD of all the rubbish
> accumulated over the past year.
> I want to reformat and then do  clean install of ME - no, I've had no
> trouble with ME on my system. (I updated from WIN98, but understand you
can
> do a clean install if you have the WIN98CD.)
>
> I thought I would partition my HD (at the moment its one large partition)
> and install Mandrake 8. I have PM6.
>
> What I would like help on is -
> 1. Info on partitioning (I've done a search for various links, but I'm
sure
> you folk know a lot more)
> and more importantly
> 2. Your own personal experience with different partition combinations.
>

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