Partition HD.

alanwjones

I have a new formated 200gb hard drive , I want to partition the drive so that the operating system is on a 7 gb partition, Does anyone know of a tutorial o'r instructions to enable to achieve this, Thanks in advance Alan.

Conor_3

Just do it when installing Windows. It'll bring up the partitioner and just create a 7GB one there.

pepsi_max2k

tweakhound.com has very good guides on this kinda thing.
here's one for installing windows xp (inc. partitioning): http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/installxp/installXP1.htm

and here's a couple of very detailed partitioning guides:
http://partition.radified.com/
http://fdisk.radified.com/

GoofyGAT

7Gb appears too little for the OS - which OS & why?

On my XP Pro system of 2 years (14-15Gb partition & temp folder empty), the C:\Windows directory itself occupies 4.9Gb! (Of course, this is excluding the Program Files, Documents and Settings folders & System Restore files/folders.) It was probably much less to begin with, & expanded over time with updates & installed programs adding more stuff. G

wakandem

The best time to do so is on windows set up. For xp I would have at least 10-15gigs available. Unless you are using 2 os's then there is not much point in splitting the drive. If you want linux as well then a 10gig partition for linux and a 1-2gig partition for linux swap.

I suppose it is ok if you want to reinstall without effecting the data drive but any progs would have to reinstalled anyway whatever partition they were on. Leave the drive as one & backup data regularly to dvd or external drive

alanwjones

Thanks for the links guys,-

GoofyGAT wrote: »

7Gb appears too little for the OS - which OS & why?

I'm going to install XP Professional, and I picked the 7gb as both my wifes and my laptop have a recovery partition ( E: ) which is shown as 6.7gb, Is there anything I'm missing out here? Alan.

wakandem

Recovery partitions are compressed

wakandem

And when running, windows likes a 1gig paging file with the space available for it to double if it wants to

alanwjones

wakandem wrote: »

Recovery partitions are compressed

So 15gb it is then, Thanks again for the help. Alan.

TheFaqqer

If you are partitioning the drive anyway, I would create a partition of just over 2GB and configure Windows to have a fixed size page file on that partition of 2GB.

If you let Windows choose it's own page file size, then it can cause fragmentation as it grows and shrinks, plus if it's on another partition then it's out of the way.

HTH.