win 7 hard drive partitioning

Dilbert-FirestormDilbert-Firestorm Nuclear Wasteland, Gretna, LA New
edited November 2009 in Science & Tech
how big should the win 7 os partition be?

currently I have two 320 gb hard drive and the manufacture split them in half, about 149 gb each plus a 14gb boot partition.

I like to change the ratio of the current partition.

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Make it 30GB, and don't install anything to C: unless you absolutely have to.
  • Dilbert-FirestormDilbert-Firestorm Nuclear Wasteland, Gretna, LA New
    edited November 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    Make it 30GB, and don't install anything to C: unless you absolutely have to.

    ok thanx. is 30gb the bare minimum deemed for win7?

    I absolutely agree with you on not installing stuff to C: which is why I wanted a smaller OS partition.

    are software programmers still dumping programs to the C: drive? Just wondering.

    I do know that programs like Thunderbird let you install programs on another drive, but unfortunately, they dump the user data & mail data to c: drive. Irritating! theres a step involved to fix that issue. This part should have been in the install in the beginning. that's my nit for thunderbird.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    I think the bare minimum is about 17GB, provided you disable hibernation, and move swap+temp to another drive/partition.
  • Dilbert-FirestormDilbert-Firestorm Nuclear Wasteland, Gretna, LA New
    edited November 2009
    Thrax wrote:
    I think the bare minimum is about 17GB, provided you disable hibernation, and move swap+temp to another drive/partition.

    ok, thanx for the info.:respect::rockon:
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Dilbert Firestorm wrote:
    I do know that programs like Thunderbird let you install programs on another drive, but unfortunately, they dump the user data & mail data to c: drive. Irritating! theres a step involved to fix that issue. This part should have been in the install in the beginning. that's my nit for thunderbird.
    That can be changed. They are simply using system variables to determine where your profile is and are saving your data there. That is, technically speaking, the correct way of saving user data. What you want to do is change your User Profile directory to be not on your system partition. this is a pretty simple process.
  • Dilbert-FirestormDilbert-Firestorm Nuclear Wasteland, Gretna, LA New
    edited November 2009
    ardichoke wrote:
    That can be changed. They are simply using system variables to determine where your profile is and are saving your data there. That is, technically speaking, the correct way of saving user data. What you want to do is change your User Profile directory to be not on your system partition. this is a pretty simple process.


    thanx for that tip. I'll take a look at it when I get a chance to fool with it.
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