I need help with Fedora

My system's configuration is

Pentium 4 2.4GHz
256MB RAM
160GB HDD

I know it's quite old but I wanna stick with it now

I want to install fedora with Win xp.

I already have xp installed on my system.

I tried to install fedora 9 but it just crashed.

All my data got corrupted as i had made another primary partition for fedora and set that active by Partition Magic.

I think fedora 8 will work better on my system so I am downloading it now.

I need ur help regarding what kind of HDD partitioning I should use,

and more importantly what scheme should I choose while installing FEDORA.

Thanks in Advance

Aakash Sharma