OS Partition

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I want to make a hard drive partition to hold just the OS - Windows XP Pro.
What would be about the optimal partition size (assuming that I don't have gigs
and gigs of stuff in My Documents) to give the OS plenty of breathing room for
swap etc. and still use the rest of the disc efficiently...assuming a 36 GB
disc?

Thanks.

Howard
 
HMSDOC said this...
I want to make a hard drive partition to hold just the OS - Windows XP
Pro.
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I made mine 10Gb. Currently have 6Gb used but I do have a lot of crud in My
Foo folders.
 
put the swap file on a separate 1Gig partition and fix its size
keep 10 gig for my documents
10 gig for XP boot + programs
the remaining 15Gig can be a work area

that way, you can format or ghost the xp partition and keep all your
documents intact when you re-install

you can reconfigure xp to use My Documents on a different drive... this is
how i do it and it works really well... just make sure you get into the mode
of putting EVERYTHING you want to keep in the case of a reinstall in a
subfolder in my documents (outlook mail... etc.)
 
put the swap file on a separate 1Gig partition and fix its size

I presume that you can assign the swop file to a specific partition through
Windows itself?? How do you do this and how does this provide improved
performance??


<10 gig for XP boot >

I assume by this that you mean a partition for the OS itself?? Also, would it
be better to have a separate partition for the applications?

Howard
 
p s said:
put the swap file on a separate 1Gig partition and fix its size
keep 10 gig for my documents
10 gig for XP boot + programs
the remaining 15Gig can be a work area

that way, you can format or ghost the xp partition and keep all your
documents intact when you re-install

you can reconfigure xp to use My Documents on a different drive... this is
how i do it and it works really well... just make sure you get into the mode
of putting EVERYTHING you want to keep in the case of a reinstall in a
subfolder in my documents (outlook mail... etc.)
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What do you do about History and Favorites?
Temporary Internet Files?
Temp folder?
Cookies?
newsgroup lists in each news account?


*TimDaniels*
 
I want to make a hard drive partition to hold just the OS - Windows XP Pro.
What would be about the optimal partition size (assuming that I don't have gigs
and gigs of stuff in My Documents) to give the OS plenty of breathing room for
swap etc. and still use the rest of the disc efficiently...assuming a 36 GB
disc?

Thanks.

Howard
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In 1 setup I have used a 2 gig XP partition and install all programs
to my D partition in a Myprograms folder.
XP uses a different Virtual memory system so you can set a,"Pagefile"
for each partition and move My documents folders etc to the other
partitions if required.

This allows me to image the system drive to 1 CDR/W disk and any work
that is needed I burn to Cds anyway.This allows me to re-install a
working system back up in around 5 mins.
Loads of info here,
http://www.winxpfix.com/
for tweaking XP as well.



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Timothy Daniels said:
What do you do about History and Favorites?
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Why would you want to backup History? Favourites yes, about the only thing
you need to backup with the MyDocs folder (but better to put your favourites
online anyway, and set that to your homepage)
Temporary Internet Files?
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Why back this up? Full of junk and slows the pc down
Temp folder?
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Why back this up?
Cookies?
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Hmmm you know what i am gonna ask

newsgroup lists in each news account?
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Not sure what you mean here... just download them again
 
HMSDOC said:
I presume that you can assign the swop file to a specific partition through
Windows itself?? How do you do this and how does this provide improved
performance??


<10 gig for XP boot >

I assume by this that you mean a partition for the OS itself?? Also, would it
be better to have a separate partition for the applications?

Howard
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Yes i put the OS and apps on the same partition... no point having apps on a
separate partition... reinstall Windows and you have to reinstall all apps
anyway (registry entries etc.)
 
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p s stood up at show-n-tell, in
[email protected], and said:
Yes i put the OS and apps on the same partition... no point having
apps on a separate partition... reinstall Windows and you have to
reinstall all apps anyway (registry entries etc.)
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Two words: Drive Image.

I can have my system back up, in 5 minutes. No need to continually do
images, either. I install all progs I know that are 'core'. Make image. I
backup OE's store file and favorites, as well as a few items from MyDocs, to
a separate drive...presto.
 
Timothy said:
What do you do about History and Favorites?
Temporary Internet Files?
Temp folder?
Cookies?
newsgroup lists in each news account?

*TimDaniels*
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One way to keep all the thousands and thousands of
internet files from writing to and fragmenting your hard disk
is to setup a ramdisk using 'AR Soft Ram Disk' (Freeware)
and pointing all the internet cache, cookies, history to the
ramdisk. One of the best tweaks I did for my system.
All the internet files just goes to ram. Faster and cleaner.
 
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