We begin with our primary
partitions. Primary partitions are intended for operating systems only,
although other files are sometimes placed in the primary partitions. Our
objective in organizing your hard drive is to move all of these other files
out of the primary partition, leaving only the operating system in that
partition.
This will let the primary
partition that contains only the operating system be quite small. You may be
able to keep it under 1GB, but you can certainly keep it under 2GB in size.
This small size will permit more than one operation systems in primary partitions
to be located on the beginning of your first hard drive. Some operating
systems must be within the first 8GBs of the beginning of your first hard
drive. This lets us prepare for future needs in this area.