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    Clear up some things

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by TK141, Sep 10, 2011.

  1. TK141

    TK141 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would just like to clear this up as I'm not sure yet and I figure this is the easiest way to find out.

    Is the 560m better than the 460m?

    Also on a side note, If I was partitioning a 750gb hard drive for win7, winXP, Ubuntu and a documents partition what would you recommend for sizing?
     
    TK141, Sep 10, 2011
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    HTWingNut Potato

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    560m > 460m by 5-10%

    Minimum partition sizes for usability.
    Win 7 25GB
    Win XP 15GB
    Ubuntu 10GB
     
    HTWingNut, Sep 10, 2011
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  3. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    560M... Newer is usually better (but the 'better' is sometimes not in what you think it might be - instead of 'better' performance, it might be 'better' efficiency, for example).

    Partitioning for 3 O/S's?

    I would personally put each O/S on it's own 100GB partition. Then in Win7, I would 'shrink' the partition to leave about 20GB free space - and leave the rest of the partition 'unallocated' - this will give the most responsive system. Not sure if this type of tweak is possible with WinXP or Ubuntu with the built-in tools (like Win7 gives us).

    For the DATA drive: this would be a nightmare for me...

    FAT32 would be required to allow all the O/S's to see the data, but neither XP, nor Win7 will format a partition as FAT32 when it is bigger than around 32GB.

    I know you can install drivers/filters to see NTFS and/or EXT partitions in the opposing O/S's, but that is just an accident waiting to happen, in my experience.

    Something that springs to mind: why wouldn't you use XP mode inside Win7 (Pro or Ultimate)? And install Ubuntu as a 'program' (sorry, forget the correct terminology here)? Then you can access all three O/S's without rebooting.

    Hope some of this helps?

    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Sep 10, 2011
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  4. TK141

    TK141 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've decided on actually setting them up in three partitions because of some of the things I use them for. So what you are saying is, I can't make a data partition without using an outside program or can I not at all?
     
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    Nick Professor Carnista

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    Nick, Sep 11, 2011
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  6. TK141

    TK141 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks guys this is good to hear, I like the info you gave me Joker.
     
    TK141, Sep 11, 2011
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