Well...to put it so fondley...my computer is a peice of crap:) but i still keep it cuz my parents bought it for me!YEA!ok...so i need to know how to multi boot with using 3 partitions...on i want to be 60GB, another i want to be 20, and the last 80GB how would i do this on a 160GB harddrive?? i need to know how many MB's all of those will be so i can put on my operating systems! so how many MB's will you type in fdisk for 80 Gb, 60GB, and 20GB? THANKS SO MUCH!!!!
2007-07-11 12:13:05 · 5 answers · asked by kENNY 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
I may be mistaken, but I believe I read that it's not wise to put multiple OS on same physical disk. 80 GB = 81920 MB 60 GB = 61440 MB 20 GB = 20480 MB
Hope it helps!
2007-07-11 12:20:25 · answer #1 · answered by pruitt801 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A gigabyte is 1000 megabytes, so just multiply each size by 1000. So, 80,000, 60,000 and 20,000 megabytes. Where the confusion comes in is 20 gig is actually 20,480,000,000 bytes.
And it's fine to put multiple OSes on the same physical hard drive. The trick is you need to put Windows on first. You can put Windows on second or thrid, but it's easiest to put it on first. Putting it on last, Windows will write to the MBR and you'll need to manually configure your boot loader.
2007-07-11 19:23:11 · answer #2 · answered by fritz_monroe 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not the best idea to put a partition in the first place. If you have a "crap" computer it will slow it down a heck of a lot more than it would normally be.
2007-07-19 01:05:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes as for the multiboot you can use more than one OS as long as each OS is installed in a different drive so one can be in the C:\ drive and the other in the D:\ drive.
2007-07-11 19:30:28 · answer #4 · answered by shorty_511 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They can be installed on one hdd that is particianed.
What OS's are you installing?
If one is Windows 98, it must be installed first and on the C: drive (which I would make 20GB) unless you are using a third party multi boot software.
The recommended practice of installing multiple OS's on the same computer is each one to be installed on a separate physical HDD.
If one hdd fails you only have to re-install that os if they are installed on separate hdd's.
If all os's are installed on the same partician hdd and the drive fails, everything has to be re-installed.
2007-07-17 13:16:44 · answer #5 · answered by Comp-Elect 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋