Win 2K Pro Partition Size

[Guest Frank Booth Snr]

"John Callaway" <jcalla@erols.com> wrote in message

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> What size partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for Win 2K pro

> operating system? I'm thinking about 25 gig for the OS & the rest for

> data. I want to keep the os partition a small as possible without

> interfering with the os. Also how big should the page file be? I have

> a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440

> @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I want this machine to be

> as efficient as possible with no extra bells @ whistles. Any

> suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

>

2 GB is the minimum recommended by MS. However that's purely for a basic

system. Bearing in mind that you will load applications and new drivers/dll

files onto the primary drive as well, 8 - 10 GB should probably be enough,

unless you load numerous games, in which case you might need even more

space. I only use 8 GB which covers a number of MS, Adobe and other

applications, and still have only used less than half of this, but then I'm

not a gamer.

[Guest John Callaway]

Win 2K Pro Partition Size

 

What size partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for Win 2K pro

operating system? I'm thinking about 25 gig for the OS & the rest for

data. I want to keep the os partition a small as possible without

interfering with the os. Also how big should the page file be? I have

a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440

@ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I want this machine to be

as efficient as possible with no extra bells @ whistles. Any

suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

 

JPC

[Guest philo]

Re: Win 2K Pro Partition Size

 

 

"John Callaway" <jcalla@erols.com> wrote in message

news:n541u3p8m0ku27b62qqdisf4asbdplvr6s@4ax.com...

> What size partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for Win 2K pro

> operating system? I'm thinking about 25 gig for the OS & the rest for

> data. I want to keep the os partition a small as possible without

> interfering with the os. Also how big should the page file be? I have

> a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440

> @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I want this machine to be

> as efficient as possible with no extra bells @ whistles. Any

> suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

>

> JPC

 

 

There is no need to divide-up your drive...

but if you want to do that...you can get by with less than 25 gigs for the

OS.

Considering that most apps will install on the same drive as the OS (by

default)

Probably 10 gigs or so would be fine.

 

As to the pagefile...just let Windows regulate it and don't worry about it.

Since you have two gigs of ram, the pagefile will probably not be used too

much anyway

[Guest DL]

Re: Win 2K Pro Partition Size

 

And since you may only have a recovery disk any recovery may destroy any

partitions you have created

 

"John Callaway" <jcalla@erols.com> wrote in message

news:n541u3p8m0ku27b62qqdisf4asbdplvr6s@4ax.com...

> What size partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for Win 2K pro

> operating system? I'm thinking about 25 gig for the OS & the rest for

> data. I want to keep the os partition a small as possible without

> interfering with the os. Also how big should the page file be? I have

> a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440

> @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I want this machine to be

> as efficient as possible with no extra bells @ whistles. Any

> suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

>

> JPC

[Guest John Callaway]

Re: Win 2K Pro Partition Size

 

 

 

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:35:25 -0000, "DL" <address@invalid> wrote:

 

Thanks to everyone for your input!

 

JPC

 

 

 

 

>And since you may only have a recovery disk any recovery may destroy any

>partitions you have created

>

>"John Callaway" <jcalla@erols.com> wrote in message

>news:n541u3p8m0ku27b62qqdisf4asbdplvr6s@4ax.com...

>> What size partition should I make on an 80 Gig HDD for Win 2K pro

>> operating system? I'm thinking about 25 gig for the OS & the rest for

>> data. I want to keep the os partition a small as possible without

>> interfering with the os. Also how big should the page file be? I have

>> a Packard-Bell Easynote Laptop F0336-V-089 with Intel Celeron MCU 440

>> @ 1.86 GHZ processor with 2 gig of memory. I want this machine to be

>> as efficient as possible with no extra bells @ whistles. Any

>> suggestions to achieve this will be appreciated.

>>

>> JPC

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