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How many gigs for your windows partition?

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dynasty

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As many of you do, you partition space for windows, and whatever else you use. I have been hearing some different things, about how muc space to partition for windows. I myself partition 3 gigs for windows, and I put all of my other apps, games, software, on another partition. Just wanting to see what other people do. Thanks
 
10,245 MB ...10 GB. My sweet spot ...WinXP Pro OS, applications, 2 GB RAM/pagefile, no hibernation, no system restore, no games. I keep a restorable image file on a separate partition for backup.
 
I'm with RVN and theEman, 10 GB.
Like theEman I keep nothing but Windows on the Windows partition though.
 
120GB. I keep everything in one partition.

On my file server I have a dedicated 20GB drive for Windows and any apps and then my other drives are used for file storage.
 
hibernation, does that take up memory? And how do I turn it off? Is hibernation when my monitor turns it's self off? I never use hibernation if that isn't it.
 
10G is good. Only reason really is because sometimes you run into a stupid installer that insists on decompressing ALL of the files to the windows partition. At least that's been my experiance.
 
Is there any real advantage anymore to placing your installed apps on a separate partition? Back in the good old days when apps pretty much kept to their own folders (actually, way back when they were called directories) it made sense. You could get away w/ reinstalling your os w/o reinstalling apps. But these days even when you intstall an app to your Apps partition, a load of crap will more than likely be written to your OS partition anyway. Hose your OS and you'll still have to reinstall most apps anyway.

I suppose you might reduce your OS drive fragmentation or something, but it seems to me that you're just as well off putting your os and apps on the same partition, and storing docs, data, etc. on a different partition(s).

That being said, I use a 20g partition for OS and Apps, and a 140g partition for Data. Loaded down, the OS partition is at around 8g free.
 
I tend to agree with the 10 GB sentiment as that is what I am running now.

The biggest reasons for keeping your OS separated on its own partition is definitly to reduce the degree of fragmentation that would otherwise build up over time. You can also go so far as to go into the properties of your My Documents and other such locations and tell them to exist on a different drive letter. Where your My Docs can get quite busy, providing opportunity for fragmentation, it is not a bad idea to change the location.

If you can get the stupid unattended answer file to work during the original installation (I can't. It is spiting me), you can put in an entry that will allow you to move the entire "Documents and settings" folder to a different drive.

Good luck!!!
 
Used to use 10GB, not have it raised to 12GB becourse of stupid programs insisting on decompressing on c:\ 🙁
 
Originally posted by: dynasty
hibernation, does that take up memory? And how do I turn it off? Is hibernation when my monitor turns it's self off? I never use hibernation if that isn't it.
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Hybernation lets you save the contents of the RAM to your hard drive, and then power the system down. When you power the system up again, it will copy the hibernation file from the hard drive back into RAM, and everything that was running will be running, as if you had never powered off the system. The hibernation file will be as big as the amount of RAM in your system - 512 MB if you have 512 MB of RAM, etc.

JW
 
Originally posted by: tm37
160GB

One poartition for everything 😉
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You should really have more than one partition. For example, if something ever happens to your windows partition and you need to reinstall your OS, you don't need to worry because you can wipe your Windows parition and keep your parition with critical data intact. Also you could do windows reinstalls a lot easier if you don't have to be moving around your important data every time you reinstall. Having more than one partition is just good practice.
 
Originally posted by: pitupepito2000
Originally posted by: tm37
160GB

One poartition for everything 😉
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You should really have more than one partition. For example, if something ever happens to your windows partition and you need to reinstall your OS, you don't need to worry because you can wipe your Windows parition and keep your parition with critical data intact. Also you could do windows reinstalls a lot easier if you don't have to be moving around your important data every time you reinstall. Having more than one partition is just good practice.
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I don't understand that argument for two reasons.

1. I should be backing up my critical files to separate media on a regular basis regardless of whether or not I use 1 or 100 partitions.
2. If I need to reinstall my OS, I still need to reinstall my applications, even if they are installed on a separate partition.

As a result, I just use a single partition for my Windows install.
 
My main system runs two drives with one partition each - 200GB and 60GB. Maybe I'll partition it when I reinstall next time, whenever that will be. Together, my Program Files, Windows, and Documents and Settings folders are very nearly 9GB - 2GB in Windows, 200MB in Documents and Settings, and the rest is Program Files. Games take up nearly 70% of the space in Program Files. My 2GB static-size pagefile is also on the 200GB drive.
My secondary system just got a good upgrade - it's now got a RAID 5 setup, with 480GB usable space, and a spare 160GB drive. (I'd wanted a 5 drive RAID 5 array, but I found later that the controller, an SX4000, supports only 4 drives.) I partitioned that up - 5GB for Windows and Programs, and the remainder was split into 3 nearly equal partitions. I'm not sure where to put the pagefile yet; think I'll start a thread on that, rather than hijack this one.
 
I don't understand that argument for two reasons.

1. I should be backing up my critical files to separate media on a regular basis regardless of whether or not I use 1 or 100 partitions.
2. If I need to reinstall my OS, I still need to reinstall my applications, even if they are installed on a separate partition.

As a result, I just use a single partition for my Windows install.
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Just a couple of opinions on your items...

Separate media backups are VERY smart, but if you are not in the habbit of backing up your system every 5 minutes, what do you do when your Windows install craps out? If you keep all of your valuable data stored elsewhere on your system, all you need to do is format your boot partition and reinstall.

I know that you still need to reinstall all of the apps, but it does nothing for the data that you would have lost in your situation/configuration.

Of course, this all is really like when I have to assess disaster recovery requirements at work. How much is the data worth to you? If it is a lot, then I would recommend a tape backup as you could schedule it and just have it over-write the tape every night.

BUT...

Given that a second hard drive is a VERY inexpensive option and that drives don't really fail that often (Unless it's IBM 🙂🙂 ). Keeping your data and applications on a separate disk is truly the best thing for performance and for easy reinstalls of your OS. If you are timid about a drive failure, buy 2 and set them in RAID 1.
 
Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: pitupepito2000
Originally posted by: tm37
160GB

One poartition for everything 😉
Click to expand...

You should really have more than one partition. For example, if something ever happens to your windows partition and you need to reinstall your OS, you don't need to worry because you can wipe your Windows parition and keep your parition with critical data intact. Also you could do windows reinstalls a lot easier if you don't have to be moving around your important data every time you reinstall. Having more than one partition is just good practice.
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I don't understand that argument for two reasons.

1. I should be backing up my critical files to separate media on a regular basis regardless of whether or not I use 1 or 100 partitions.
2. If I need to reinstall my OS, I still need to reinstall my applications, even if they are installed on a separate partition.

As a result, I just use a single partition for my Windows install.
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1. Your partition may get hosed before your monthly backup, and your critical files will be ok in another partition. Also if you are backing up thins, having them on a separate partition and making backup of them is good, you should prepare for the worst, always.

2. I didn't mean putting your apps in a different partition, only data and documents.
 
I use 10GB. Aswell. It holds all the games I play, and the professional apps that I'm still forced to reboot to windows to play.
The rest on that 80GB drive is split into 2. Storage & MP3.
My second 80 has various Linux partitions.
I also have a 3rd. It gets mounted at 5AM every morning, a backup is made of both the other drives, and it is unmounted again. That is the ONLY thing that drive has ever done since I bought it for that purpose alone.
 
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