re: How much space to allocate when partitioning Monday, December 23, 2002 at 11:32 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by czyxzy (594 messages posted) My exeprience with video editing and storage requirements is to use a second drive for this purpose. I installed a 60GB Maxtor ATA133 drive exclusively for video recording and editing and it quickly is turning out to be too small. FAT32 only allowed 2GB file size, but, with NTFS, that limit is now 2 TeraBytes. I have an AIW7500. I capture/record TV on occasion. At the best settings for DVD/Mpeg2, 20GB free on this drive only allows 4 hours of video. Video Eats Gigabytes. Just something to think about. On Monday, December 23, 2002 at 4:17 am, Simon wrote: >I've just got a Dell 4550 with a 80GB Turbo (7200 rpm) hard drive, running Windows >XP. > >I want to partition the drive for several purposes: > >1. Software/applications >2. Documents >3. Multimedia/video capture & editing >4. Virtual memory. > >These are my questions: > >* Are these the appropriate, and only, uses for drive partitions? > >* How much space should I allocate for each purpose? > >* Regarding virtual memory, how do I make sure that I place the relevant partition >in the fastest part of the drive? > >* If I partition the drive and later decide to change the sizes, are there any issues >to be aware of? > >Many thanks in advance for any help that comes my way. Written in response to: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Simon: Monday, December 23, 2002 at 4:17 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] How much space to allocate when partitioning (Simon: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 4:17 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Ben: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 4:36 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Jon: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 5:04 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Bob B: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 6:07 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Adam Bradley: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 8:08 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Gennadiy: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 8:31 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (Jon: Tue, Dec 24, 2002, 1:45 am) re: How much space to allocate when partitioning (czyxzy: Mon, Dec 23, 2002, 11:32 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum