This is getting out of hand

[Goosemaster]

Damn. My program Files folder is up to 31GB.

Games and other crap have forced me to repartition like 4 times.

First I went for 7-15GB for my main drive, and thought I would never fill it up.
Then once I filled it to the brim, I decided that 25GB would do.


My C: Drive is 40GB now and 2.38 are free.


Time to repartition. :|

I'lll make it 60GB this time:evil:


This is all legal software BTW and it doesn't include the 16)GB and 200GB external PVR and fstorage dives that are @ 50%:evil:

 

[Frew]

Too much p0rn

 

[notfred]

Or you could just make one big partition out of your whole drive and not worry about it anymore.

 

[paruhd0x]

I have 2x 200GB HDs in my computer oh and a 200GB HD in my xbox. 31GB isn't big... you just need a larger HD. I recommend Seagate

 

[TheLonelyPhoenix]

I used to partition my 200 GB to about 40 GB... when it was clear that wasn't enough, I bought an 80 GB to dedicate to Windows and my apps and saved the whole 200 GB for data.

Both drives are almost full now.

Edited before Spelling Nazis arrived.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: LeadFrog
Too much p0rn

surprising, and honestly, it all gets deleted. the shame of it all forces me.

Originally posted by: notfred
Or you could just make one big partition out of your whole drive and not worry about it anymore.

Well, frankly, that wold be boring

Originally posted by: paruhd0x
I have 2x 200GB HDs in my computer oh and a 200GB HD in my xbox. 31GB isn't big... you just need a larger HD. I recommend Seagate

The drive is 120GB. I jsut like Keeping the Program files on one partition, my music on another, and the pagefile on the last one, while keeping everything inside. I don;t trust my external drives that much yet. I have had a few wrtie-errors so maybe in the future.

Then I keep my PVR files and workign directory on the firewire so it doesn;t use the CPU when recording

 

[gflores]

I have 14gb in my program files (out of 30), but 6gb is from UT2004.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: gflores
I have 14gb in my program files (out of 30), but 6gb is from UT2004.

damn.

 

[Chronoshock]

Put programs and win xp on my raptor (74gb) and everything else (movies, music, anime, isos, etc) on two big storage drives If I ever fill up my OS/apps drive, I really need to clean up lol. I still have about 20 gigs free and thats just because I use it as a temporary storage place for downloaded stuff. In terms of actual programs and OS storage space, I only need 15-20 gigs, what big programs are you using that fill it up?

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Put programs and win xp on my raptor (74gb) and everything else (movies, music, anime, isos, etc) on two big storage drives If I ever fill up my OS/apps drive, I really need to clean up lol. I still have about 20 gigs free and thats just because I use it as a temporary storage place for downloaded stuff. In terms of actual programs and OS storage space, I only need 15-20 gigs, what big programs are you using that fill it up?

Farcry.........................................................................................................3GB
call of duty.................................................................................................1.1GB
XIII...........................................................................................................2.5GB
Medal of honor warchest ( AA,Spearhead, breakthrough)................................~7GB
Spinter cell.................................................................................................1.5GB
Battlefield 1942...........................................................................................2GB
BF1942 DC
Norton crap
Max pAyne
Star wars BF............................................................................................... 2.7GB
steam............................................................................................. ............7.5GB
Studio 9...................................................................................................... 2.7GB
gmax............................................................................................................
MS office......................................................................................................~700MB
MS Visio......................................................................................................~400MB


MUSIC: 50GB (mostly lossless :cool
PVR recorded crap:
40GB of trans wmv (transcoded from mpg2)
30GB of uncompressed TV shows
12GB of 6Mbit Turner classic movie classics...


I had to upgrade to 1GB of ram too because BF1942 runs like ass. Someow my pc can play farcry @ 16x1200 with all the godies at medium and still falls flat on its face with BF1942.

 

[AmigaMan]

My work laptop that I conveniently use as a gaming laptop on another partition is running out of space too. I've had to do the old "uninstall one game to get another to install" thing again. I hadn't had to do that since my Pentium60 days and my 420MB HD. Too bad I can't afford another drive, I'd love to get my hands on one of those nice 60GB Hitachi 7200RPM laptop drives...

 

[Demon-Xanth]

There are programs out there (some free) for resizing partitions w/o messing with removing everything and reinstalling. Though I've found that after using some you need to do an fdisk /mbr to get the boot record fixed.

 

[biostud]

I install games on my D: all other programs on C:, this way the C: only needs 20Gb including swap file. And all other stuff on a backup drive.

 

[gflores]

Originally posted by: biostud666
I install games on my D: all other programs on C:, this way the C: only needs 20Gb including swap file. And all other stuff on a backup drive.

Hmm... I like that. I think I'll do it that way the next time. I currently have my partitions, C: for programs and winXP, D: for music, E: For movies, F: TV shows, G: Other. This other seems like a waste to me.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
There are programs out there (some free) for resizing partitions w/o messing with removing everything and reinstalling. Though I've found that after using some you need to do an fdisk /mbr to get the boot record fixed.

Paritionmagic works wonders. The problem is I never keep estimating the future growth accurately

 

[jjones]

I have my drive (200 gig) partitioned into C: System, D: Programs, E: Work, F: Storage, and G: Games. Everything is nice and organized. I also have another drive strictly for backup.

 

Ditch partitioning.