what size for OS partition?

[Virtualbody1234]

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).

I'm kinda curious as to why you put program files on a different drive, surely if you reformat c: you'll have to format e: too? Or is it for speed reasons, and if so does it actually make any difference?

It's for speed in his case. clocker is using a 4GB iRAM drive.

[clocker]

I'm kinda curious as to why you put program files on a different drive, surely if you reformat c: you'll have to format e: too? Or is it for speed reasons, and if so does it actually make any difference?

Program Files is set to default to E: Program Files in my nLite installation disk.
This was absolutely necessary due to the very small size of my C: drive (Gigabyte i-RAM w/4GB installed). Only programs that load at startup (in my case, RegProt and MBM5) and a few "daily use" programs (i.e. Firefox) run from C;/Program Files- everything else goes to E:.

I have to be quite careful what goes into my C: drive.
I found this out the hard way- Bootvis for example, creates giant logfiles which filled my C drive past capacity and froze the system.

I'm trying to implement a backup strategy that will not require complete reformats/reinstallation of all the Program Files but that goes poorly so far.
I'm about to try another attempt at Ghosting my C: drive, wish me luck.

[Virtualbody1234]

... wish me luck.

Good luck!

[clocker]

Thanks.

I've chickened out twice already today.