XP Pro & hard drive partition

I have ordered a HP zv5000z and will want to partition the hard drive to separate the OS from my data & installed programs. There will be two partitions on the drive.
I have not used XP before, how much space should I leave on the "C" drive for the OS? The notebook will come with the 30 gig drive, but it will be replaced immediately with a 7200 RPM 60 gig.


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8-10Gig would be sufficient.
Thats more than enough to hold XP OS, Full Office. Photoshop, or any other large programs u may have.
Make note that u may at least once need to reformat C so its eaeler to do so on a smaller partition. You can always make it bigger (partition) later down the road anyways if u find u need more space.

 

It's the oddest thing: in talking to HP support about installing XP64 and W2k3-64 bit editions, the support fellow mentioned that partioning the harddrive would VOID ALL WARANTEES! I don't recall seeing this anywhere else, and it seems quite [ !] unreasonable.

Just a possible caveat,

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Thanks for the info from both of you. I won't be partitioning the HP original drive anyway, just the new one I will install. It could be that HP puts in a hidden partition for files used for restoring & support and trouble shooting the system. I know some other manufactures do this. If the drive is partitioned I think it would remove any hidden partitions.

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Not to where you are afraid of falling to....