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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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| 197874 | 2003-12-16 07:54:00 | My recommendation is to buy Partition Magic. I have Partition Magic 8.0 and it has saved me no end of hours of aggro. Most of the aggro I get into is my own fault I admit because I'm a constant fiddler, I try out things, new software, scripts, messing with settings and everything else I should leave alone. With PM 8.0 I can resize,add,delete, convert, set active and alter partitions in all kinds of ways. I have my partitions set up with WIN XP on C: 6GB - Files on D: 54GB and a boot partition on E: a swap file on a separate hard drive F: , and a G: backup partition, H: a small partition I keep all my program exe.files. Everytime I stuff things up I reinstall WinXP,reinstall all my programs from H: and I can get it all running again in about 2.5 hours and all my Excell, Word and other files are untouched all on D:where I left them. What ever you do don't try to install your other programs on a separate partition it can't be done, I know I've tried it. It's OK to keep the exe.files on another partition but they must be installed on C:drive with the OS. This works for me but I have no doubt there are other ways. | i-gordon (962) | ||
| 197875 | 2003-12-16 09:03:00 | > Everytime I stuff things up I reinstall > WinXP,reinstall all my programs from H: and I can get > it all running again in about 2 . 5 hours and all my > Excell, Word and other files are untouched all on > D:where I left them . If you use a program such as Ghost it will take only 20 minutes to restore your computer back to how it was at the time of the last image . > What ever you do don't try to > install your other programs on a separate partition > it can't be done, I know I've tried it . It's OK to > keep the exe . files on another partition but they must > be installed on C:drive with the OS . That is not correct for the majority of programs . It is recommended that Microsoft Office be installed on C:drive with the OS but other programs may be installed on other partitions . |
tommy (2826) | ||
| 197876 | 2003-12-16 14:20:00 | > 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 I honestly thought that that would be the case - never could understand the theory of having it elsewhere. > Can anyone confirm that the swapfile should be 1.5 > times the amount of memory you have? I seem to recall that it's XP's help files themselves that give that recommendation. |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 197877 | 2003-12-16 20:03:00 | If you have the swap file on a different Hard drive it helps with the speed as there are two heads operating at the same time less load to worry about and less jumping from one place to another during times of intense activity . it also means less to image when doing backups . |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 197878 | 2003-12-16 20:07:00 | SwaP FILE SIZE is determined by your specific needs if you just surf and burn then 400 megs is fine if you do film editing photo intensive stuff then 600 upwards may be more suitable use cacheman and do the most intensive operations you would normally do then set it at what you feel comfortable with . I use 500 max so have it at 600 megs on my 98Se PC it can be adjusted in a few minutes any ways |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 197879 | 2003-12-17 05:35:00 | I have setup a computer on 3 Gigs, it's your above standard PC running, MS Office XP, Adobe Photoshop 7, NAV, NIS. I had to put the swap on another drive though and I moved My Documents to another drive too. I like keeping only the System Files on the System Drive in case of some misfortune. But this was suitable and minimal I would use. For future proofing make it 6-10Gigs but I don't expect to keep computers longer than 2 years, so the choice is yours. |
Kame (312) | ||
| 197880 | 2003-12-17 11:25:00 | tommy, I agree that you can install programs on a separate partition, however if those programs have registry entrys then they will cease to function if windows is reinstalled so having the programs on a separate partition is no use. Some small self contained programs such as the Steve Gibson ones can run and be saved in the event of a reinstall |
i-gordon (962) | ||
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