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| Thread ID: 70995 | 2006-07-23 07:15:00 | Turning 3 hard drives into one (Raid?) | Newteach (4990) | Press F1 |
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| 472938 | 2006-07-24 17:20:00 | Sometimes (most times!) being too tight is not worth it . In my experience you will always have trouble with squeezing XP plus programs plus updates plus swap file etc onto 3GB . I wouldn't even try anything less than 6GB for a system drive . It is hugely frustrating continually having XP nagging about running out of disk space . And you did want to keep it simple for your daughter . Have you seen how cheap brand new drives can be? A drive can always be transferred to a newer system later, as well . If you want to keep it simple I'd suggest you go and buy a new drive of at least 40GB . Like I said . . . . NOT going online will eliminate all the growth factor in XP for updates, add-ons and quick fixes . . . so I don't see a problem with it getting too big for a 3 gig drive at all . Running out of space is just one of the things that XP likes to do if it needs to update and improve itself . I am sure that it would even be a silly idea to add SP-2 to this setup too . This is the ONE TIME I don't recommend SP-2 though! :xmouth: |
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| 472939 | 2006-07-29 22:50:00 | Thanks for the advice guys...will install Scooters Magic Castle on with a copy of my VERY OLD Need for speed 1 and she'll be happy. | Newteach (4990) | ||
| 472940 | 2006-07-30 00:34:00 | I think Joe's suggestion is the best one. I doubt if the 10 year old girl is going to be demanding the enormous, goriest, latest games for at least a year. Now that is funny,well done. |
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