First of all: mods - if you think this is crap and should be removed/moved: go ahead
Well first i had a perfectly working windows 7/ osx 10.5.7 dual boot with chameleon. The filesystem was MBR, and the bootloader was chameleon (installed into the mbr and the osx partition). The disk was 250GB, and i had it partitioned into 120/120 partitions. The first one was windows, the second OSX. Anyway, everything was working perfectly, then when installing a new chassi - I accidentally drop my HD and it flickers and burns (metaphorically). So now I bought a new 1 TB HD. Its completely clean and the primary HD (no other disks are isntalled, except an unreliable 80gb ntfs - good for progs/docs but not really windows [minor corruption issues]).
Anyway now im going planning to set up windows 7/osx setup again on the TB drive. I have had a few ideas for the partitioning:
-Making two small (10-20GB) partitions for windows and OSX, while having two Big partitions (~490GB) for programs and documents (this involves moving t he home folder in OSX and the user folder in windows to the two BIG partitions - i know this is possible and i know how to do it). This would ensure windows and OSX are always at the beginning of the drive (no frag) and load (relatively) faster. This would also mean i would only need to backup the docs/progs partitions. If this reasoning is wrong - please point it out.
-Halving the drive so i have osx on one partitiona nd windows on the other (pretty simple)
I also need advice on whether i should make it in to a (damn... whaddyacallit - oh yeah:) GPT partition (read somewhere this helps larger drives work faster). I have no issues witht the extra work needed to make it into a GPT.
I also have a question - as soon as you make a drive into GPT (using any tool) is a hidden EFI partition made, or does that only happen when you format the drive using OSX??
