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Originally Posted by Richard M
I agree with Neil, 10GB for Windows and the rest for your programs, games and documents etc.
If you can though, try adding another small partition (D  which you can put the swap file on and nothing else.
This way, your virtual memory will never become fragmented and always be very fast, a partition of 1GB is the max size that you'd want to do this.
So then you'd have:
C: WinXP (10GB)
D: Swap (1GB)
E: Programs (the rest) |
No point putting you swap file in a different patition. It gives you no benifit if you only have one hard drive (ie a laptop).
If you have a second hard drive in your PC you can improve things by moving your swap file off your primary hard drive.
The only reason these days to partition, is to give yourself a data partition, os if you have to format XP, you don't lose your data.
Of course you get fun and games if you keep forgetting to install programs into D:\Program files\ as C: will rapidly run low on disk space.