Disk partitioning size

T

tempest

wanna install 'Vista Home premium' on notebook with 320GB hard drive(comes
with
Linux by default). What size partition should I set for operating system?
Same question if install windows XP.
 
P

Pegasus [MVP]

tempest said:
wanna install 'Vista Home premium' on notebook with 320GB hard drive(comes
with
Linux by default). What size partition should I set for operating system?
Same question if install windows XP.
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Windows XP: 20..25 GBytes (for WinXP and Apps) + whatever you need for your
data files.
Vista: Ask the same question in a Vista newsgroup.
 
M

Malke

tempest said:
wanna install 'Vista Home premium' on notebook with 320GB hard drive(comes
with
Linux by default). What size partition should I set for operating system?
Same question if install windows XP.
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I assume you aren't going to dual-boot but will replace Linux with some
flavor of Vista. Of course, you will have already made sure there are
drivers available for the operating system of your choice.

It really depends on what programs you are going to install and how much
data you keep. Only you know that. As a *minimum*, I do a 30GB partition
for XP and a 40GB partition for Vista (operating system and programs). I'd
put the data on the remaining partition. Or don't partition it all. It's
your choice, really. If it were mine I'd just leave it with the one
partition, image it, and back up regularly. After all, if the hard drive
dies it won't matter if your data was on a second partition.

Malke
 
J

JS

For XP a partition size of 25 to 30GB.
For Vista 35 to 40GB.

Use the larger values provided if your PC
has 3 or 4GB of memory so as to accommodate
the pagefile size.

Also if you are installing a lot of applications
and or creating large amounts of data then these
partition sizes may need to be adjusted upward.
 
M

Mike Torello

Pegasus said:
Windows XP: 20..25 GBytes (for WinXP and Apps) + whatever you need for your
data files.
Vista: Ask the same question in a Vista newsgroup.
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The bozo already did.
 
T

tempest

Malke said:
I assume you aren't going to dual-boot but will replace Linux with some
flavor of Vista. Of course, you will have already made sure there are
drivers available for the operating system of your choice.

It really depends on what programs you are going to install and how much
data you keep. Only you know that. As a *minimum*, I do a 30GB partition
for XP and a 40GB partition for Vista (operating system and programs). I'd
put the data on the remaining partition. Or don't partition it all. It's
your choice, really. If it were mine I'd just leave it with the one
partition, image it, and back up regularly. After all, if the hard drive
dies it won't matter if your data was on a second partition.

Malke
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M

Malke

tempest wrote:

For data is all the rest space, for applications, for example, Vista,
Office,Photoshop, and few bulky apps.
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Sorry but I don't understand what you meant by the above. As I said, if it
were mine I'd just leave it as one partition and image/backup regularly.
The only advantage to having two partitions on a single drive in this case
is if you regularly reinstall Windows (like for a testbed box), then put
the data on the second partition so you don't lose it when you reinstall.
You still want your programs on the system partition because if you have to
reinstall Windows you'll still need to reinstall the programs anyway
because of all the entries that would be missing in the registry.

I don't really have anything to add to this.

Malke
 
R

Randem

You both are incorrect and only attempt to scare people with you lack of
knowledge and testing. It is only a rumor that this is true I can REPEATEDLY
cause Windows to fail in this exact manner. You really should at least test
before you attempt to render someone elses work irrelevant.

So sine I can repeatedly do this I guess you call that a fix by MS? Well it
is not and never will be.



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Randem

BTW. what you are talking about is Windows WILL boot from a partition larger
that 137GB but if the same partition have more that 137GB of data you are
asking for trouble because of the reasons that I state. This can be varified
but I KNOW that would be too much for people like you to do actually do for
that would actually be WORK!

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Randem

Then you mis-read the article. It's not the end of 160gb that windows writes
data but at the end of 137gb. If you write data there that is when you will
have the problem. If you look into the file that is at or spans the 137gb
boundry you will find that it is corrupted for something was written to the
cylinder that hold the data.



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BTW. what you are talking about is Windows WILL boot from a partition
larger
that 137GB but if the same partition have more that 137GB of data you are
asking for trouble because of the reasons that I state. This can be
varified
but I KNOW that would be too much for people like you to do actually do for
that would actually be WORK!
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I read your article and then I tested this by filling the end of a 160GB
boot drive with data and it did not crash
windows. It can read the entire drive without any problem. I've had this
160GB drive as the boot drive since 02-27-2007
and it's never crashed. The only thing that has ever caused my computer not
boot is bad RAM which cause a corruption of
the Registry as it closed Windows.
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John John (MVP)

That was the case when Windows XP was released but if your installation
CD is SP1 or better it doesn't apply.

John
 
R

Randem

It figures... Test are done on a number of machines with different OS's
including Vista. All fail the exact same way. One should actually test
instead of just guess. It is very easy to replicate.

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It has been tested in SP2 and SP3 with ALL updates applied so there is
certainly no mistake... It is very easy to replicate.
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Perhaps your test machine needs a BIOS update?

http://www.48bitlba.com/winxp.htm

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Randem

You just need to write to the disk until it reaches past 137gb then reboot

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It figures... Test are done on a number of machines with different OS's
including Vista. All fail the exact same way. One should actually test
instead of just guess. It is very easy to replicate.
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I'l give it a test as soon as I get another machine. I don't feel like
testing it on this machine just in case your
correct. I'm getting a machine that wont boot in a few days. I'll use that
one. I have plenty of large drives to test
with.

How can I make sure I'm writing to the "sweet spot" on the drive? Can I just
fill it up with compressed files beyond
that point?
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Randem

You must fill up the unused space before 137gb to write past 137gb

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It figures... Test are done on a number of machines with different OS's
including Vista. All fail the exact same way. One should actually test
instead of just guess. It is very easy to replicate.
Click to expand...

I'l give it a test as soon as I get another machine. I don't feel like
testing it on this machine just in case your
correct. I'm getting a machine that wont boot in a few days. I'll use that
one. I have plenty of large drives to test
with.

How can I make sure I'm writing to the "sweet spot" on the drive? Can I just
fill it up with compressed files beyond
that point?
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