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Im planning on formating my PC tonight,
but for the first, I would like to make two partitions, one for OS and programs,
and the other one for my files, downloads and stuff.
But I would like to know what is the recomendes size for the software partition?
I was thinking 10 Gigs would be fine, but now Im not so shure, I mean, Corel is like 3G, Office 2G, and you never know what you'll want to install later.
Do you think 20 Gigs is ok?
My primary partition is 20GB. Last time I looked I had about 11GB free.
I got rid of the MS Office crap and installed OpenOffice instead. My free space is now 14GB.
20GB should be fine for progs, games (if you play), swap file...
I installed OS, some games and progs = 11GB+-
I have just 7.8gigs for XP which works fine. All I install there is XP, office, other small programs, and my swap file.
Games and everythinng else is in my other partition.
My C: drive is 4GB. There is 2.5GB free.
I only have a few apps in it's Program Files, most everything has been installed into E: Program Files (D: is a page file, both D and E are on a separate hard drive).
Yeah... i dont know why i made a 35.5GB partion, i have 23.2GB of free space. I pretty much put program files (including large ones like adobe photoshop, downloads from browser(firefox) and thats it. I put games on other patitions.. so i guess 15-20GB at most should be the ideal size of the partition, unless you plan on installing games on it, then you can make it higher.
I think I'll start putting games on my C drive since i only install 2-3 games at once, and could make up space on my other partition. I have 448GB formatted btw. I also have a 40Gb partition when Windows vista comes along.
lol at least you made a partition, im an idiot and didnt make any...
I'm sure you have at least one.Quote:
Originally Posted by suprafreak6
My C: partition is 30GB.
When you're using XP, 15-20 GB is just fine.
Other systems won't need as much, ie for W98SE a 2 GB partition is really more then needed.
Use partition magic.Quote:
Originally Posted by suprafreak6
First of all work out how much space is occupied by the data you want to move to a new partition.
Shrink your existing partition to a couple of GB more than the minimum.
◄C▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬► Before
◄C▬▬▬▬▬►--------------- After
Create a new partition at the end of the drive to hold this data temporarily. Now reboot into windows and move the data across to the temporary partition
◄C▬▬▬▬▬►--------------- Before
◄C▬▬▬▬▬►-----◄T▬▬► After
Use partition magic again, and shrink your C partition again, then create another new partition occupying the remaining space. Boot into windows again and move the data from the temporary partition to the new partition.
◄C▬▬▬▬▬►-----◄T▬▬► Before
◄C►◄D▬▬▬▬►◄T▬▬► After
Use partition magic again, delete the temporary partition (which should now be empty), and increase the size of the final partition to occupy the space just freed up.
◄C►◄D▬▬▬▬►◄T▬▬► Before
◄C►◄D▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬► After
If you don't have space to do it all in one go, you can still do it but it is a little more complicated, and probably easier if you copy some of your data onto DVD.