XP partitions

[Guest]

I have an 80 gb hdd, i want to reinstall xp and partition the hdd. How much allocation space for a partition does xp need?

 

[siljaline]

I have an 80 gb hdd, i want to reinstall xp and partition the hdd. How much

allocation space for a partition does xp need?

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[Gabe]

From what I have seen posted in here, not more than
five Gbytes. That would probably give you enough room for
the XP itself and any addons, such as antivirus and
internet software, plus drivers you may need to load that
XP doesn't already have.

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I have an 80 gb hdd, i want to reinstall xp and partition

the hdd. How much allocation space for a partition does xp
need?

 

[Kelly]

FIVE? Wouldn't recommend it. Nope!

 

[Gabe]

Why not? Just out of curiosity. Too small or too big?

 

[Kelly]

Too small, in my opinion. And that is just with XP being installed, with
using a share drive for the rest <mail/news, software, etc>.

That said, how many drives and partitions do you have installed to base your
reply on <am just curious>? How many operating systems do you have
installed between them? Do you have share partitions?

Either way, I still revert to my original reply, too small. )

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Why not? Just out of curiosity. Too small or too big?

 

[Testy]

I have XP on a 3.5 gig partition for over two years and still have 61% free
space.

Testy

 

[Crazyeyes]

My answer to this would be don't go under 8 gig.

I have XP on a 3.5 gig partition for over two years and still have 61% free
space.

Testy

 

[SpicaTC50]

I agree. My system partition is 15G and I'm sitting here with 5G free, so be
careful not to make it too small, especially if it also contains your swap file
and you aren't using alot of physical memory.

Armand

 

[Gordon]

I agree. My system partition is 15G and I'm sitting here with 5G free, so be
careful not to make it too small, especially if it also contains your swap file
and you aren't using alot of physical memory.

Armand

Wow! What on earth have you got in Software that takes up 10GB?

 

[Gabe]

I have four partitions. I have XP on a 5Gbyte partition,
ME on a 5Gbyte partition, a shared data partition of
50Gbytes, and an XOSL loader on 15Mbytes. The shared data
partition is FAT32 so I can access it with both XP and ME.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Kelly

Mine is 4.5 gb with 1.5 gb freespace. However, that is with swap file,
temporary internet files, outlook express and most programmes elsewhere. My
Documents is there but I do not use it. I also keep deleting system restore
points.The suggested 5 gb was a sensible suggestion.

However anyone reading this post should review available before downloading
and installing the Windows XP SP2 update as it will be large.

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A whole lot of stuff.

16.2 GB used, 13.8 GB free and all documents, music, downloads, images, backups, etc. are in seperate partitions on other drives.

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[Alex Nichol]

I have an 80 gb hdd, i want to reinstall xp and partition the hdd. How much allocation space for a partition does xp need?

For comfort , and assuming you want to install programs into the same
partition (which you might as well do if you have only one Operating
system so you do not want them in a shared partition, I'd suggest
something like 12GB. I do have such a separate partition, and the sum
of the material on my C: and in that separate one comes to about 9GB.
Aim for a bit of headroom so there is plenty of room for page file and
restore points.

 

[Kelly]

Am very impressed, really. )

 

[Kelly]

Thanks for the reply, Gabe. Your setup looks doable, but it has never
worked for me. Is just that I have had to resize too many times for
comfort. That said, am not a downloader at all. My Multi-OS system
partitions are clean with a share drive.

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I have four partitions. I have XP on a 5Gbyte partition,
ME on a 5Gbyte partition, a shared data partition of
50Gbytes, and an XOSL loader on 15Mbytes. The shared data
partition is FAT32 so I can access it with both XP and ME.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Kelly

A modest investment in Partition Magic makes life a lot easier!



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[Kelly]

Am a BING girl, Gerry. And it serves even better, thanks. )

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have four partitions. I have XP on a 5Gbyte partition,
ME on a 5Gbyte partition, a shared data partition of
50Gbytes, and an XOSL loader on 15Mbytes. The shared data
partition is FAT32 so I can access it with both XP and ME.

You can do it provided you are either not loading any significant amount
of third party software, or are always installing that to the shared
partition. But you have to be pretty careful over things that insist on
going into Program files no matter what

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Kelly

"Is just that I have had to resize too many times for
comfort."

Doesn't sound that way if the above is your experience.


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