How big a partition for WinXP?

[Dman877]

On my 120 gig drive I have 50 gigs for xp/apps, 10 gigs for utilities/benchmarks, and the rest (~50 gigs) for media storage. I like the partitions that way so I can format the c drive and reinstall the os/apps without losing any music/movies or having to download SP2/drivers/benchmarks every time I re-format.

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: Lovehandles

Originally posted by: Ronin13Does the game still work, or does it have to be reinstalled as well?

Yes, you will need to reinstall them. Most programs (including video games makes changes to the registry during the installation). Since the new OS installation won't have any idea what's been installed previously, you will need to reinstall them.

i didnt have to reinstall any. doom3, rtcw:et, cod, farcry, all of them worked fine, without any registry tweaks. i just launced them from the exe inside their respective folders and they started without a problem.

 

[ViN86]

its different for everyone. depends on what you want to do. generally i keep my programs on the same drive as windows, and put my pagefile on another harddrive. but, to be safe i would go with a partition from 50GB to 80GB. thats plenty enough for windows, programs, and the pagefile (which you should vary depending on your amount of RAM)

 

[Icopoli]

Originally posted by: Zolty

Originally posted by: Icopoli
XP Pro caps at 160gb.

That is why it sees both of my 250 GB's

Won't recognize more than 168gb on either of my Maxtor 300 or Seagate 300, so I split it into 2 148's.

 

[jjsbasmt]

One large partition of 250 GB. I use Ghost to back up my partition to an external HD, so restoing everything is simple and fairly fast.

 

[SkaarjMaster]

The reason for having more than one big partition is so you don't lose all your data when your HD crashes. The backup being another option preferably using both options at the same time to save data. I use a 15GB partition for WinXP and all the programs on a 200Gb HD with 4 other partitions. Another HD is partitioned exactly the same and is used strictly for backing up.