Problem

[Numsgil]

I found out a way to deal with two installs: I need to edit the boot.ini file to remove the second copy of windows.

I would have just kept both.  It's good to have a backup install in case the first explodes (which I wouldn't put past windows).

[Shen]

It will be a separate partition, so fragmentation does not come into play at all.  That's the whole reason to put it on a separate partition.

Bleh, minor niggle. Actually it will, but it will affect your other partitions. After all its still the same physical drive so if you have it in the middle or something silly your system partition will be cut in half. Call me pedantic.

[vryko]

swap: new partition and fat32

why fat32?  it is faster.  ntfs has some extra security, everytime you read or write it has to check if you have permission to do so.  fat32: no securtiy, no important computertime lost!  (note: only do this for the swap-partition.  the benifits of ntfs can be really important for other partitions.  cluster-size would be one of the most important ones).

[Botsareus]

I like ntfs mostly because my hard drive did not go even once while running a really disk , cpu , ram killing program on it (smexe).