Partition or not to partition

I am getting a MCE XP PC soon and wish to know is it possible to partition
the Hard Drive. I am getting a PC with 250Gig of memory and wish to know is
it going to work with Patition Magic d/loaded?

I am a newbie to MCE and would like to know as much about this as I have
many photos to d/load onto this PC. I wish then to make a backup of the
Harddrive with Ghost 10. Is all of this a good idea on MCE.
--
David S

A while back (several months ago), someone posted that Ghost
didn't work with MCE 2005. You should check with Symantec
to see if MCE 2005 is a supported OS.

If not, there are other options for creating images of your
hard drive.

But in general, I like to keep the OS installed on its own
partition (or drive), and all my documents, media, etc. on
another partition (or drive). That way, if you need to
reinstall the OS for some reason, it is a lot less painful.

--
-Bob
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Windows XP Media Center Edition
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I have heard quite a few problems reported that the temp folders get full
when the system partition is small. Some of the media temp files are huge
(5-10Gb).

Personally, I'd have thought it may be worth just laying out another £75-100
and buying another 300Gb hard disk.

"DavidS" wrote:

DavidS wrote:

David,

It's a great idea. I too have a 250GB HD (I think that's what you meant, not
"250GB of memory") with MCE2005. I used PM to split it into two: 60BG for
the OS (I gave it ample room to accomodate the PVR aspect, which would be
mostly large temp files and also for any AV editing I might want to do,
again large temp files) and the rest to store music and video (mostly DivX
files).

I use Ghost 10 regularly to image the OS in case of problems. I've used it
to restore a couple of times which it did flawlessly.

HTH,
Bruce