Hi Guys,
I finally got round to fitting my 160Gb Maxtor HDD into my system and I have a couple of question im hoping some of our techies here can please help me out with.
I have made several partitions on my Drive one for normal browsing and downloading of various tools related to this site, one for Games and one for my Movie Utils and the largest partition for all my rips and conversions.
1. What I wanted to know is as im installing XP Pro as my OS I think I read somewhere that I could install it on the various partitions without a boot manager as XP will ask you which partition you want to boot off. Is this true?
If it isn't it's not important as I have freeware boot managers I can use.
2. I had a load of MS Outlook Express Message Rules set up on my old HDD can I inport them somehow to my new rebuilt OS as I don't fancy having to type them all in again.
3. On the movie partition I don't intend having that partition hooked up to my network or the net how can I make it secure so that im safe from the net can I use XP's own firewall and block everything or will I still need a third party firewall?
I was thinking do I need to have all the network protocols installed on this partition if I don't intend networking this partition? In otherwords can I remove the TCP/IP and QoS, Clients for Microsoft Networks & File and Print Sharing. Can I untick these?
Thanks in advance for any help given.
Btw I downloaded Maxtor's drive utils from their website to partition my HDD and I was really impressed with the good tools it came with.
I hope you guys can help me out on these matters.