I currently have a WD30gig7200rpm with windows and all my stuff, unpartitioned. Im planning on making a dual win2k/linux boot, so I got a new hard drive today (Maxtor 60gig7200rpm).

Now the first problem is that a WD and a Maxtor cant be on the same IDE cable; so Ill have to put the smaller WD as slave on the secondary IDE (with master being a cdrw) and the larger Maxtor as master on the primary IDE. Is that good?

Second thing is where to put os partitions? Linux needs 2 partitions (swap and native [does native hold app data and documents too?]) and windows will need one. How much space should I do for each of those? Should I let Linux automatically partition itself to default sizes? Then those would go one the 60gig. But then would I need to make a OS selector, like Arconis OS Selector 5 (which I legally own)? How and when does that install?

Finally, how should I partition my other stuff (ie apps, games, documents, my immense collection of picture file and movies )? Should I make separate windows/linux partitions? which hard drive should they all go on?






If you didnt read any of the above, just post what your partitioning setup is. Otherwise, please help