W2K & XP on Same Machine?

What size for each partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for both
Win2K pro & XP operating systems? I'm thinking about 15 gig for each
with extended partitions for data of equal sizes for each. I would
like to keep the os partitions a small as possible. I have
a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440
@ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I loaded Win2K but ran into
driver problems so I guess I will have to load XP. A cd with XP &
Vista drivers came with the laptop. I would like to still use my old
HP flatbed scanner that won't run with XP so I guess I will need to
load Win2K also. Any suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

JPC

"John Callaway" wrote in message
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What size for each partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for both
Win2K pro & XP operating systems? I'm thinking about 15 gig for each
with extended partitions for data of equal sizes for each. I would
like to keep the os partitions a small as possible. I have
a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440
@ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I loaded Win2K but ran into
driver problems so I guess I will have to load XP. A cd with XP &
Vista drivers came with the laptop. I would like to still use my old
HP flatbed scanner that won't run with XP so I guess I will need to
load Win2K also. Any suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

JPC


I'd probably just run XP and skip win2k if you can't get the drivers.
I have my very ancient HP flatbed scanner working just fine with XP

On Apr 5, 5:58 am, "philo" wrote:
"John Callaway" wrote in message

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What size for each partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for both
Win2K pro & XP operating systems? I'm thinking about 15 gig for each
with extended partitions for data of equal sizes for each. I would
like to keep the os partitions a small as possible. I have
a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440
@ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I loaded Win2K but ran into
driver problems so I guess I will have to load XP. A cd with XP &
Vista drivers came with the laptop. I would like to still use my old
HP flatbed scanner that won't run with XP so I guess I will need to
load Win2K also. Any suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

JPC

I'd probably just run XP and skip win2k if you can't get the drivers.
I have my very ancient HP flatbed scanner working just fine with X


you can always resize partitions later.
I would go 20 for xp and 15 for w2k
In any case it will work
What software are you using for the process