how much space does winXP need?

[Storm]

im gonna have to reinstall XP on the laptop of a friend of mine.....

right now he has his HDD in one partition, this of course will change ;)

but i was wondering, (cause his HDD is kinda small), now big do i need to make the C partition for XP to fit on it? i dont want it to be any bigger than need be, cause he will be installing everything on the D drive, same goes for documents)

[Afronaut]

You might want use nLite to make a special XP cd.
It can reduce the size a lot plus tons of other stuff.

Chlick here (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?p=934261)

I cant remeber whats the default size of XP install is.
But I guess it was under 1GB, maybe even under 700MB

:)

[Storm]

You might want use nLite to make a special XP cd.
It can reduce the size a lot plus tons of other stuff.

Chlick here (http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?p=934261)

I cant remeber whats the default size of XP install is.
But I guess it was under 1GB, maybe even under 700MB

:)

nah, thats to much work ;)

but i know XP uses more than 1 GB....... i know its over 2 GB @ least......

[Afronaut]

nah, thats to much work ;)

but i know XP uses more than 1 GB....... i know its over 2 GB @ least......
Might be around/over 2GB.

I forgot the effect of the Page File.

That is probably allocated by percentage of the size of Hard Disk.

[feygan]

Not to be rude but aint that abit lazy??? easily found it under 10 seconds

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

[Virtualbody1234]

How big is the HDD?

[Afronaut]

Not to be rude but aint that abit lazy??? easily found it under 10 seconds

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx
Yeah, spot on.




1.5 gigabyte (GB) of available hard disk space.*

* Actual requirements will vary based on your system configuration and the applications and features you choose to install. Additional available hard-disk space may be required if you are installing over a network.
:D

[tesco]

4gb would be fine.
my windows partition is only 5gb and i get along fine. :) still over a gig free.

[Storm]

Not to be rude but aint that abit lazy??? easily found it under 10 seconds

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx

i had allready looked at that, but have you ever seen requirements that were acurate? (microsoft is especially good at that no way a standard XP install will work on 64 MiB RAM!!!! 128 maybe, but dont try doing to much at a time)


How big is the HDD?

i think bout 15-20 GB or so.......

i think ima go with 4-5 GB like Rossco said........

thnx 4 da help guys!!!

[Tifosi]

I make my windows partition ~10GB, so I can have windows and most of my programs on that partition. I don't see the point in keeping other programs on the non-boot partition as they most likely won't work on a new install (new registry) anyway. But then, I can afford the 10GB as it's only a small amount of my overall drive space