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26 Aug 2010 | #1 |
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Size of partition for Win 7
I will be installing Win 7 on second drive in it's own partition (Dual Booting with Vista on C:\), what size should the Win 7 partition be? I have 1TB to work with, so size is no problem.
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26 Aug 2010 | #2 |
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Here's Microsoft's recommendations. Of course nobody in their right mind would make their OS partition this small.
Windows 7 system requirements - Microsoft Windows |
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26 Aug 2010 | #3 |
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This really depends on how much software/games/temp space/and other stuff you plan on putting on the c: drive. Typically, I would not go with less than 200G.
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26 Aug 2010 | #4 |
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This depends if you plan on installing lots of apps and games, your most basic apps and maybe one or two games, 60-80Gb should be fine, if you make a separate data partition. Tutorial here: Data Partition |
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26 Aug 2010 | #5 |
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64 dual boot main build-remote pc W10 Pro x64 Insider Preview/W7 Pro x64
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Another thought is how much do you need as far as general use as well as comtemplating a second storage.backup partition or simply having one large primary to work with.
Here the situation was solved by having additional drives for storage and backup purposes. Here's a look at how things were while running the RCs on the last build a year ago right before 7's release date. |
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27 Aug 2010 | #6 |
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Hello BarrieNoodles, welcome to Seven Forums!
The one thing to keep in mind is that the Windows built-in partition tool will only let 3 primary partitions be created, and a fourth extended partition that as many logical partitions as you have drive remaining letters, per HDD; so keep this in mind as you set up the partition structure. I wouldn't put an OS on less than about a 100GB, JMMHO. |
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27 Aug 2010 | #7 |
W7 Ultimate x64/W10 Pro x64 dual boot main build-remote pc W10 Pro x64 Insider Preview/W7 Pro x64
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A good look at the 100mb system reserved partition Bare Foot Kid is referring to is seen in the snipping from the Disk Management tool here. When installing 7 on a prepartitioned drive however using a 3rd party program you generally won't see it.
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