How Much Space does XP Pro Require?

[LoC]

i am finally going to reformat my primary drive and i am wondering how much space i should partition to the OS as i am going to create two seperate partitions. my friend suggested 10GB out of 120GB total. i am thinking 15GB as this should be much more than sufficient, correct? oh, and if i reformat, do i need to reinstall programs that are installed from the secondary drive? and for that matter, say i need to reformat later on. since there will be two seperate partitions on the primary drive, will programs installed on the second partition of the primary drive still run without needing to be reinstalled? this is my sig rig.

[Cricket]

Originally Posted by LoC i am finally going to reformat my primary drive and i am wondering how much space i should partition to the OS as i am going to create two seperate partitions. my friend suggested 10GB out of 120GB total. i am thinking 15GB as this should be much more than sufficient, correct?

15GB should be fine.

Originally Posted by LoC oh, and if i reformat, do i need to reinstall programs that are installed from the secondary drive?

Installed from the secondary drive? Do you mean installed on the secondary drive?

Originally Posted by LoC and for that matter, say i need to reformat later on. since there will be two seperate partitions on the primary drive, will programs installed on the second partition of the primary drive still run without needing to be reinstalled?

No, they won't run because Windows won't know they're there...you have to reinstall them.

Cricket

[LoC]

another question, i just repair installed windows less than 1 week ago in an attempt to fix the problem. will windows freak out on me?

[rspassey]

Originally Posted by Cricket No, they won't run because Windows won't know they're there...you have to reinstall them. Cricket

Actually, I think they will run. Recently, my primary drive (c) ran into some serious driver issues after a stupid mistake on my part. A repair install didn't fix anything, and made it even worse to a point where I couldn't boot into the OS installed on that partition (XP Pro). No fear - I simply installed XP Pro onto the other partition (D) from scratch and decided that it would be a lot of work to try and re-install all my programs again, so - I simply found the .exe of the programs from my C drive which won't boot and placed them onto my desktop on the OS on my D drive for easy access. They work without a problem, the only one that didn't fully work was Unreal2k4 as it said I have the wrong CD authenitcation # when trying to load it. Everything else works fine.

[kev7555]

Quote: "15GB should be fine".


I have XP pro runining on several old computers with 4GB hard drives.
Doesn't leave much storage space, but it runs fine.


-Kev

[LoC]

i reformatted around 2pm. shortly thereafter i installed a few drivers, and i got a windows file corruption error so i had to repair install. arrrghh! but now it loads in just over a minute, once again, and setup my programs on my hdds and partitions so it runs super fine!