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03-24-2003, 09:20 AM
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How much space to allocate for XP Pro in it's own partition?
If I want to have my operating system (XP Pro on 80g HD) in it's own partition (I have partition magic 8), how much space should I allocate for it (to allow for future updates, etc.))?
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03-24-2003, 10:03 AM
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XP will run in about 3 gig, however, depending on how much RAM is in the system, I like to give it about 5 gig to include the swap file. YMMV
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03-24-2003, 10:14 AM
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I agree, go 5Gb minimum.
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03-24-2003, 10:47 AM
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I would go with 8G. I started with 4G and load applications to a different drive. Still I didn't have enough to load SP1 when it was available. I used partition magic to up it to 8.
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03-24-2003, 12:09 PM
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The extra space never hurts... I'm running 10Gb for my C drive.
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03-24-2003, 12:21 PM
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I have an 80 GB. 60 GB for Win and apps and games, and the other 20 for backups.
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03-24-2003, 12:44 PM
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Having that big a partition size (60GB) is illogical and a performance liability. Your 60GB hard drive has got a number of files that have an extremely low lifetime. You probably, depending on your usage would require something to the tune of a weekly defrag. One of the ideas of partitioning is also to ensure that files that are frequently changing (temp files, internet cache, dll cache, system page etc) are on a partition that is sufficiently small so as to defrag quickly.
I'd agree with the 6-10GB limit. |
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