Smallest partition for XP?

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What's the smallest partition I could get away with for XP SP3 and
Office 2007? 10GB?

Thanks!
 
Gordon said:
What's the smallest partition I could get away with for XP SP3 and
Office 2007? 10GB?
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I have a 5.59 GB partition with a bare bones XP install on it. By "bare
bones" I mean no sound or graphic card drivers or software, very little
other software. The Windows folder is 1.06GB. Total used is 3.23 GB
including a pagefile of 2GB.

Office 2007 ranges from 1.5-3 GB depending on options. I see no reason why
10 GB wouldn't be satisfactory, especially if you put the pagefile somewhere
else.


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20 GIG is the minimum in my opinion. If you leaver yourself short for any future SP
or Updates and changes then you will have a nice problem
 
Gordon said:
What's the smallest partition I could get away with for XP SP3 and
Office 2007? 10GB?
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Depends on why you are asking.

If you are asking just to figure it out, you could probably get it done with
4.5-9GB of space.

If you are asking to keep from finding out later you need more space - I
suggest 15GB minimum, better with 20GB+... I personally won't install any OS
with less than 40GB dedicated to it now. ;-)
 
Shenan said:
Depends on why you are asking.

If you are asking just to figure it out, you could probably get it done with
4.5-9GB of space.

If you are asking to keep from finding out later you need more space - I
suggest 15GB minimum, better with 20GB+... I personally won't install any OS
with less than 40GB dedicated to it now. ;-)
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Thanks - the reason is to dual-boot XP and Linux with Linux as my main
OS but keeping XP for things I can't currently do in Linux such as
update my SatNav....
 
Gordon said:
Thanks - the reason is to dual-boot XP and Linux with Linux as my
main OS but keeping XP for things I can't currently do in Linux
such as update my SatNav....
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Why dual boot? Virtual Machines - then you can continue using *nix and
doing whatever you want whle using the VM to do what you cannot do in *nix?
 
Gordon said:
Thanks - the reason is to dual-boot XP and Linux with Linux as my main
OS but keeping XP for things I can't currently do in Linux such as
update my SatNav....
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How large is your hard drive?
 
Shenan said:
Why dual boot? Virtual Machines - then you can continue using *nix and
doing whatever you want whle using the VM to do what you cannot do in *nix?
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Yeah I'm drifting towards that.......
 
Gordon said:
Quite small - 80GB.....
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That's fairly large compared to my 40GB drive! LOL

Don't make life any harder than it needs to be. 20GB for XP + programs
for sure.
 
Daave said:
That's fairly large compared to my 40GB drive! LOL

Don't make life any harder than it needs to be. 20GB for XP + programs
for sure.
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Agreed. 20 GB at the minimum, but 30 GB or 40 GB would be a better,
unless he has some really compelling reason not to use that much (40 GB),
and leave the other 40 GB free or other stuff).
 
Bill said:
Agreed. 20 GB at the minimum, but 30 GB or 40 GB would be a better,
unless he has some really compelling reason not to use that much (40
GB), and leave the other 40 GB free or other stuff).
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I was under the impression he wanted three partitions: one for XP, one
for Linux, and one for data. Anything more than 20GB for XP (which is a
realistic minimum) would affect the size of the data partition.

So, OP: how many partitions do you have (or do you want to have)?
 
The date and time was Monday, June 22, 2009 12:54:11 PM, and on a whim,
Daave pounded out on the keyboard:
I was under the impression he wanted three partitions: one for XP, one
for Linux, and one for data. Anything more than 20GB for XP (which is a
realistic minimum) would affect the size of the data partition.

So, OP: how many partitions do you have (or do you want to have)?
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Gordon said he just wanted to use XP and Linux in another reply, but I
didn't see him mention another for data.

I have 6 OS's on this workstation and 3 hard drives (120/120/300). My
XP partition is only 7 gig. The MS updates is something I have to
shuffle off the drive, but that isn't a big for me.

My data is on another drive and the programs are on another drive also.
I did that long ago so I could have small OS partitions for Me/W2k/XP
(also have Win98 DOS/Linux/Win7). I install all programs to E: so only
one installation exists for all the OS's. That also keeps my programs
drive small (8 gig). And they share the data drive also. It makes for
quick OS and program backups, and the data is backup up each day.

My suggestion would be to only allow about 25-30 gig for Linux and leave
50 for XP. Those MS updates keep adding up...

Terry R.
 
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