re: How much space to allocate when partitioning Monday, December 23, 2002 at 5:04 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jon (114 messages posted) It's all opinion, here's mine. My C drive, with XP installed to it, is 6 gb, and I'm tending to find that a bit tight, if I was rebuilding today I'd make it 10 gb. I would question whether there's any benefit of splitting your partitions for storing different types of data, why not have a folder on your main data drive for each type of media? You can also have a Program Files folder there too, and install all your software to that location. I can see why you'd want your video data on a different drive, so how about a 10 gb D drive for software and documents, and the rest as an E drive for everything else. On the question of virtual memory, there is only a benefit of having the pagefile away from the system partition if you're going to put it on a different physical disk (for speed of read / write), so in your case with just the one hard drive you may as well leave it on C:. With regard to partitions, try not to change them if you can help it as there's always a chance of error, but if you have to, then a recent version of Partition Magic is as good as anything. With that much hard drive, however, you may be able to temporarily move your data around so as to enable you to delete a partition and recreate it to the size you want, which will be cleaner. Hope this is of some help, best of luck. 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