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Post Date: 2008-05-23
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paintballakid5 View Drop Down
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    Posted: 23 May 2008 at 11:07am
ok so i got my computer(yay). and i got 1 320GB HDD and i'm curious will that work well with 2 OS's on it? its at 7200RPM's,, will that work well? cuz my bro has vista on 1 HDD, and XP on the other...
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I am pretty sure it will.  What DSO did to my rig was split the 150GB raptor which I think you would want to do.  So I had like 60 or so GIGS on one and 60 or so GBS on another.  Vista on one half and XP on the other half.  split
Processor: QX6850 (3.3Ghz)
RAM: 4GB 1066 Dominators
Graphics: 2x 8800GTX 768MB
Sound Card: Fatal1ty
HDD 1: 2x 150GB raptor (RAID 0)
HDD 2: 1x 150GB raptor
HDD 3: 320GB western
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Posts: 221 		  Quote Randy Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 07 Jun 2008 at 9:31pm
The hard-drive can handle that no problems. You will have to partition the drive into 2 separate partitions. Which you can do in the windows installation.  Im running Dual boot with Ubuntu linux and Vista ultimate 32bit.
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As Randy mentioned, that is defienetly possible on your hard drive, and if you have any questions about it, or need any help, your more then welcome to give us a call, or ask further questions here, as we would be more then happy to help you out.
 
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Edited by Sarah - 07 Jun 2008 at 9:45pm
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Thumbs%20Up Glad to see our staff active on the forums during the weekend.
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Posts: 411 		  Quote workingman Quote  Post ReplyReply bullet Posted: 10 Jun 2008 at 5:36am
I'm just curious...is the file system in xp you are using on the split os fat 32 ot ntfs...cause i got a copy of xp for my new rig..and it suggests i use fat 32 if i have two os's on my hard drive...just wondering
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Hi workingman,

Well I would use ntfs and heres why.

http://searchwincomputing.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1179332,00.html

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harley you really do have a lot of time on your hands dont you
 
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