Windows on seperate partition

Legato · Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:58 am

ok so i just reformatted me pc

and i decided to partition my HD into 3

one for windows, 1 for game and 1 for general

problem is i underestimated how much space windows takes up so the drive that it its installed to (c:/) only have anout 140mb left on it

is that gonna cause me problems?

Legato · Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:40 pm

fixed

JohnMcClane · Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:43 pm

I think XP says it needs 100mb free to run well... but I don't know whether that has to be on the same partition or nor.
If it's an NTFS formatted partition I believe GParted lets you "grow" the size of a partition, I don't know whether that will require a windows re-install :S

Sun Jan 04, 2009 12:44 pm

Yes!

Windows has a mind of its own when it comes to space. You can shift stuff out of your C: drive like the swap file but all those dlls that get stuffed into system32 are going to fill it up in no time. btw, how much space did you allocate for C:?

I've seen a sys admin with many years experience, insist that 6gig was plenty for windows server 2003, we have been stuck with this decision for the last 5 years as going back and extending/reformatting the partition was a non starter as the server was in continuous use. Pain in the bracket!

Legato · Sun Jan 04, 2009 1:21 pm

well i just did a qucik reformat, no probs really

C:/ just has windows on it and the other things that auto get added when u instal windows

i allocated 5.5gig it now has 2.1gig free so tahts ok, as nothing but the odd gfx driver will now be going on there

d:/ has 35gig and is gonna have my games.. well just CoD5 and Steam

and e:/ has 109gig, and thats for all general crap

so lets see how this goes

Mad_Skier · Sun Jan 04, 2009 2:59 pm

I recently had to adjust the size of one of the partitions on my hard disk and I found this:

Easeus Partition Manager

It's free and it worked. Jobs a good'un.

jackDEFECTORbauer · Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:42 pm

I got one of them asus EEE 901's a while ago, you only get 4GB primary HDD combined with all the usuall crap the force on you doesn't leave much room.

I then heard about windows FLP! (fundementals for legeacy PC's) It's a trimmed down version of XP but remarkably it still supports and does very well everything I could want from it, only difference is instead of a few hundred MB free theres nearly 2GB on the 4GB

So if your tight on space - Win FLP!