I have just bought a new 160 Gb SATA harddrive. Already had one 60 Gb (where I have Win XP Pro) and another old 5200 rpm 10 Gb drive.When I formatted the HD I selected to configure it as dynamic disc (the other two are basic). Was this a god choice? Yet there is nothing stored on it so I can reconfigure to basic.My intention is to have one partition for FS. How big should it be?Right now all my FS stuff take about 40 Gb and I plan to install more addons.I also is considering to try out Linux and at a later state maybe install Win XP 64 bit (or maybe Windows Vista will be a better choice)Is my total HD size with the new drive big enough for all this?How is it best partition it and use it?

You have way more fs stuff than me, but if I had 40 gb of FS stuff I would probably want to go 80 gb for FS partition.And then 40 gig for Linux.And 40 gig for WinXP64/Vista. I don't know, that's a tough call.

>You have way more fs stuff than me, but if I had 40 gb of FS>stuff I would probably want to go 80 gb for FS partition.>>And then 40 gig for Linux.>I'm instead considering using the 10 Gb drive for Linux. I only wan't to test and learn a little about Linux. I don't intend to install a lot of Linux program.>And 40 gig for WinXP64/Vista. I don't know, that's a tough>call.If I get WinXP64 it will mainly be to use it with FS so this volume needs to be big. I also think it's best to step by step changing the main use to this platform. Maybe I will need to buy another harddrive when I get WinXP64. I think about WinXP64 only being sold with hardware.