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| Thread ID: 40377 | 2003-12-06 05:55:00 | How much for XP in partition ? | DutchKiwi (4936) | Press F1 |
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| 197864 | 2003-12-06 23:38:00 | Thanks a lot guys, still open in the debate: where to o with the swap file. Ideally on a separate harddrive, but do I let it in the OS partition or in the program one or in a separate one? Ta Johan |
DutchKiwi (4936) | ||
| 197865 | 2003-12-07 00:07:00 | i would just leave it in the OS partition. a good comprimise between wasting space and risking "out of memory errors". | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 197866 | 2003-12-07 04:17:00 | But do you then put all the programs, XP office etc etc in that same directory or is it solely for the OS ? Cheers |
DutchKiwi (4936) | ||
| 197867 | 2003-12-07 04:26:00 | read the partiton FAQ. for general users its best to install any OS intergrated program on the same partion as the OS. also most programs you want running at startup (eg antivirus) are best on the OS partiton. programs such as office and most other MS programs are best on the OS partition simply because if you format the OS partition and reinstall you will then need to manaually delete the program before you can reinstall it. all other program can go on another partition and all data that dosn't need high speed access you can have on the last partition on the drive. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 197868 | 2003-12-07 05:07:00 | it actually depends on what you are going to be doing whith it, Mine is a 5 gig, (must change it to 10 some time), Donno how it works, but i had xp on a 2 gig hard disk with swap in there as well Ten should be the recommended min. Linux will run fine on 2gb tho.... |
ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 197869 | 2003-12-07 05:08:00 | I don't see how some of you need 10GB for your OS partition. I have done a highly customised unattended installation of Windows XP Pro, for both the trial version I used and the full version I now use. In total, the time I have used them is about 1.5 years. I partitioned my HDD (40GB, too) into ~3GB (C:), ~24GB (D:), and ~10GB (E:). I installed the OS onto the C:, and that is all I put there, aside from programs where you cannot specify the place of installation (I also installed MS Office there, though I cannot remember if you can tell it to be installed on another drive). Everything else goes on my D drive. As yet, I have not run out of space on the OS partition. In fact, I have more than 1GB free space, and I also have System Restore enabled on that partition, though hibernation is disabled. Your preference really depends on how much memory you have (as the swapfile size will be dependant on that) and how strictly you keep to having the C drive as an OS partition. And despite the countless times I've said it on this forum (okay, maybe not countless, but quite a few), it appears people still think that having the swapfile on a separate partition is good. Again it's personal choice, but having the swapfile on a separate partition will slow down access times to the file. The reason for this is that, if located on the first partition, the swapfile is located relatively close to the physical start of the drive, and so access time is very fast. Unless you have the swapfile on a partition on a second HDD, the time it takes the drive to access the sectors where the swapfile is located will increase. I will admit, however, that the time it adds is negligible in general use of your computer, and it does reduce fragmentation of the swapfile - though if you regularly defragment your partitions, this does not matter anyway. Can anyone confirm that the swapfile should be 1.5 times the amount of memory you have? I think I heard that somewhere, eg, if you have 256MB of RAM, if you have a specified swapfile size, it is best for it to be 384MB. Otherwise, letting Windows manage the size of the swapfile will keep it at the best size. |
agent (30) | ||
| 197870 | 2003-12-07 05:12:00 | I must get into the habit of using the Preview function... Anyway, I will add that, using the unattended installation, I specified that the 'Documents and Settings' folder be located on the D drive. I would assume some of you have it on the C drive, and hence the reason why you need such large partitions for your OS drive. |
agent (30) | ||
| 197871 | 2003-12-07 07:45:00 | I have also got a 10GB partition for Win XP and it also has all my programs on it as well . It is ample room and I still have a couple of gig or so spare . Can install more programs on other partitions if I want to, or clear out the ones I rarely use . If you do not have Partition Magic it can be a bit of a pain resizing partitions later so it is best to get it right the first time . ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 197872 | 2003-12-16 03:00:00 | can that folder be relocated in retrospect ? Cheers Johan |
DutchKiwi (4936) | ||
| 197873 | 2003-12-16 04:21:00 | You do not have to use the default Documents and Settings folder. In fact it is actually a wise thing to create another Documents folder elsewhere and use that because if a profile becomes corrupt it can take all the data in D & S with it. | Susan B (19) | ||
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