HELP!!! How big should Win2000 Professional be

[mhan80]

I installed Windows 2000 professional first with fat 32 then converted to NTFS througth command prompt. throught this conversion will I get the same performance as if I installed it with NTFS from teh beginning?

Also,By directtory is abnormally big. The Entire Winnt directory is 780 megs and the system32 directory is 480mb. The ServicePakfiles directory is 130mb, Driver Cache is 50mb with i386 file inside that only has zip files. Is the size win2000 normal.

can a person that knows win 2000 answwer my questions, thank you

 

[Usul]

Little oversized, for a coustom installation.

And the Fat conversion should be the same as fro the beginning, if everything worked out ( no errors)

 

[mhan80]

why is my installation so big it never messed up? my friend says it should only be 300mb?

 

[reality bites]

Mine is bigger

My winnt directory is over 1G and the system32 is over 500mb. I have a boatload of apps installed though. If you just have win2k and nothing else installed that sounds wrong, but if you have apps installed it is just fine.

 

[mhan80]

I only have Office premium, norton and some other small programs installed

 

[Usul]

So it's about ok.
Office and Norton are big guys.

 

[Vinny N]

converted to NTFS througth command prompt. throught this conversion will I get the same performance as if I installed it with NTFS from teh beginning?

I'd probably give it a quick run through with defrag afterwards just to be sure

 

[deepthrot]

You can kill everything in \winnt\system32\dllcache and that'll free up like 250mb or so.

 

[mariner]

I did a standard install and with nothing else installed it took about 800-900MB, TOTAL. After installing Office and other things I had about 1,500MB TOTAL. FAT6.