I just want a concensus to the size of everyones partition for vista. I am going to dual boot xp pro and vista 64. I made xp 45gb because I will not be putting a lot of info on that partition. I was wondering what you thought a good size for vista will be? I was thinking around 100-120gb. I have many large programs to install like adobe CS3, office 07, etc that take up a lot of space. I want to future proof it for size. What is your take on this?
I have seen some people say 20gb. Do you not put anything on this partition? That seems so small.
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Jump to Postyeh that's pretty good. My Vista partition is 112 GB. I have that CS3 suite installed, Office Home and Student 07, Encarta Student, VS C# Express 2008 and C++ Express 2008, the general "must-have" programs like Winrar and Firefox among others, and some gigs in downloads and documents / files. …
Jump to PostIf it's just music you should be fine. But if you're like me and use MCE to record shows and are just too lazy to transcode them, be prepared to sacrifice an entire disk to them. Right now I'm in the process of getting a 500GB drive cuz my current …
Jump to PostJust to give you an idea, my laptop has a 100GB hard drive (well, 87 after marketing scams and a recovery partition), and with Vista Ultimate, VS 2008 Team Suite, Office 2007 Ultimate, a handful of other small programs and about 25GB of music I still have 15GB left over.
Jump to Posti suggets no less that 100G for vista Microsoft suggest 40 for ultimate, but base on what you plan to run and bare in mind the pagefile it will create.
Jump to Postyeah you can locate the page file to a different drive that what the opeating system is installed on
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