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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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| 197854 | 2003-12-06 05:55:00 | Dear friends, so I am going to partition my new 40 GB harddisk in a partition for the OS and prorams and data. That makes 3 partitions. Now how big do I make the OS partition for Windows XP professional? And some say I do not need to make a partition for the swap faile since under XP this would be irrelevant. What would you guys say? Shall I save some money for expensive partition programs and just use fdisk or is that silly ?? Cheers Johan |
DutchKiwi (4936) | ||
| 197855 | 2003-12-06 06:13:00 | i would set aside minimum of 10gig for the OS. no need for other partitioning programs as XP has its own which is part of the setup. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 197856 | 2003-12-06 07:03:00 | Ive installed WinXP on a 1.2GB HDD... Swap was on another drive.. and it was majorly cramped, so give it more.... Some programs cant install on other partitions, so Im gonna debate 10 gigs and say 3... ;-) |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 197857 | 2003-12-06 09:00:00 | I would go for a 10G OS partition as you will need the extra space over time and split the remainder for your other two partitions. | Archibald (180) | ||
| 197858 | 2003-12-06 09:06:00 | > gonna debate 10 gigs and say 3... ;-) Sorry Chilling, I'm going to debate your 3Gigs. (future proofing) ;) |
Archibald (180) | ||
| 197859 | 2003-12-06 09:07:00 | I gave it 6Gb and had the swap on D: its getting a bit tight after a year of use so 10GB sounds good. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 197860 | 2003-12-06 10:53:00 | I run Xp with 4 partitions. The Primary partition is 3.5 gigs. The swap file is not allowed in the primary partition & only essential software is allowed in it. 'System restore' is disabled. The reason for this is so I can make quick 'Ghost' image files of the system. The second partition is titled 'Backups' and contains Ghost Images & favourite software files. From time to time I can burn the 'Ghosts' to CD. Third partition is 'Programs' for all active software. Fourth partition is Data for all my work and Data files. I do not use 'My Documents' in 'C'. You can move it to 'F:Data' if you wish. If I ever have any trouble, I just 'Ghost' over 'C' & in a few minutes its up & running again. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 197861 | 2003-12-06 14:11:00 | My XP is on a 5gig partition, but I wish I'd made it 10 gigs. However your HD is a bit small, so maybe go about 7 gigs. >The swap file is not allowed in the primary partition Not sure about that - I have a swap file on my primary partition |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 197862 | 2003-12-06 17:16:00 | 10 gigs is about right if you intend to put a lot of programs or games onto it do a fixed swap file of around 600 megs preferably onto another HDD if you have a spare one , | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 197863 | 2003-12-06 19:07:00 | Okay, I surrender... 10 it is.. ;-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
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