New dual boot sys. Suggestions?

[crewzen]

I am setting up a game computer, my main concern is the OS’s. I have one 147GB HD for Vista 64 Ultimate and one 147GB HD for XP x64. Since all the programs and the OS will be on one drive so that each OS has it own and not shared programs. I should partition the hard drives so to keep a clean computer and other reasons. The XP x64 I have the OS on 80 GB partition and 60 GB for games and other programs. The main programs that I use such as Office and Photo shop etc, are on the OS’s partition. This I hope will work out OK.

Now the Vista 64 Ultimate partitions I think may have to be partitioned off differently but I am wondering just how I should do them on the Vista 147 GB HD. I know Vista sucks up a lot more disk space than XP and I am wondering how much head room should I leave on the first partition.


Oh yes and the data files and storage for other data is handled with a 600GB scsi raid array. So that is taken care of for both operating systems since they both use NTFS.

Any suggestions?

[JonnyBlazexx]

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but make sure to install xp first. At least with xp pro 32bit, you will run into massive problems if you install vista first. Vista understands a current install of xp, but xp doesn't know what the hell Vista is when newly installed in a dual boot environment.

[axan]

I can share my setup, maybe it can help
XP 32 bit, Vista 64 bit, single wd3200aaks (320gb)
partition as follows
partition 1 - 10 gb - boot files for both xp/vista (originally this was 1gb partition but vista kept sticking stuff in there)
partition 2 - 145 gb - xp 32 bit
partition 3 - 145 gb - vista 64 bit

each os stores program files on its own partition, the only shared space is the boot partition
I have other disks for data and game installation

Whatever you do make sure you install xp first, also if you install xp and vista on seperate disk, if the xp disk is present during vista installation vista will stick it's boot files on xp drive (can be avoided)