I do the same thing, I no longer do OS and data partitions either. For us this is not a big deal but I have seen a few thru here setup like that with C FULL and D empty. PPL do not know to change the install routines and I am not sure if this can be tweaked in the registry or not. FWIW fp
At 04:11 PM 10/30/2008, Stan Zaske Poked the stick with: >When I first started partitioning my drives with separate WinXP and data >sections I started with 15 gigs and then 20 when that didn't seem large >enough. I did however run into a program that wouldn't work because it >complained that there wasn't enough space on drive C. My latest build is a >game machine with Vista upgrade and I just made it all one partition to save >time. > > >DHSinclair wrote: >>What is a reasonable partition size for WinXP? >>I ask this because I have watched both W2K and WinXP getting close to >>outgrowing the 4GB partitions they live on (here) ATM. >> >>Yes, there may be much junk that I have not yet found/killed on either that >>might mitigate this question. >>I do keep all %temp%, temp, and tmp directories at 'empty' as best I can. I >>do use eraser to clear unused space also. Still, I find the OS (and my >>stupidity) is expanding. I did expect this; just not this fast. >>Thank you, >>Duncan >> -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- My other computer is a Cadillac.
