Firstly, read my recent postings as on Help and Support Then look in archives - there have been several threads addressing system setup, space allocation partitioning etc.
Me - I reckon, for XP.. 10GB minimum - but better calculations are.... 5GB for the OS, 1GB working space for the paging file ( or memory size if larger, unless pagefile size is limited Memory size for 'hiber.sys file if you have not removed Hibernate from the available closedown options 3GB per user 5GB for a DVD drive's software workspace 5GB more if it's a DL DVD 5GB or 10GB if you are going to have a DVD 'drive' image on the OS drive 5GB for Goback and the other 'update backout facilities if you are going to use them - they're gonna eat space as they keep 'restore image filesets' That assumes that: You are going to tell IE and OE etc to put their data and temp work files on another partition You install all applications that do not 'control' and/or 'manage' your hardware on another partition You put all user data - docs, MP3, DVD images etc on another partition JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "BobJohns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 9:38 PM Subject: Re: Reformatting HD > One other suggestion. Before doing the reformat go into Device Manager via > System Properties and either write down or print out all of the listings > found there. > > This can be very helpful when trying to figure out what needs to be > reinstalled. > > Bob J. > Guam U.S.A. > > At05:45 AM 9/4/2005, Pete Holsberg wrote the following message: > ==-==-==-==-== Begin Quoted Message ==-==-==-==-== > >Carl Houseman wrote: > > > >>To allow for other programs, updates, service packs, and free space for > >>defrag to work with, I'd allocate at least 8 GB to an XP system partition... > >>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322014 > >> > >>Carl > >> > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: Pete Holsberg > >>Subject: Reformatting HD > >> > >>I'm just curious as to what you all have done. > >> > >>I'm going to format and reinstall Windows XP Pro on a Dell 8400 that has > >>a hidden partition for drivers, I guess... > > > >-- > >Pete Holsberg > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned > LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: > http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
