How do I determine how big to make the partition for Windows XP? Pooky Joralyn Well, the Windows folder takes about GB after installation, and will grow after receiving updates. I guess 20GB is plentiful to install some apps. Faishal Akbar dont use to much spaace for XP, if you just installing the os not with the programs i recommend GB For Installing, if you prefer install with some heavy-size application I recommend GB. Installed programs went on the smaller partition and games, music, pictures went on the bigger one.
If you are able to give it 15GB then you're good. Michael Heffner XP will install with all the extras removed in as little at 1. This does not leave any additional room for programs or data though. Once you put in the amount of space you want to use in the partitioning software, it will fill in the un-allocated space with the remaining available space. Michael Heffner XP will "install" with all options removed in as little as 1.
Once you put in how much space you want to use, it will fill in the un-allocated space with the remainder of the empty room on the drive. Kevin H Yeah, I'd say at least 10gb. For me, I like to give some buffer so I'll give Oron Joffe Sandra, I agree with Bruce, there's no single figure because it all depends As you can see, the basic size of the OS is not the main issue, but rather the other things that go with it, applications, temp files, installation backup files e.
As a rough guide, I'd suggest 5GB minimum for the OS, more for applications if they go on the same drive. Since you are partitioning anyway, create a separate partition for the page file and set the page file to a fixed size you can accept the size recommend by the system.
If you are keeping the OS, applications, page file and hibernation files all on the same drive, I'd suggest 30GB as a minimum, and if your hard disc allows , increase the size further up to about 80GB if you have plenty of space. Arpit Nadda If you want to install windows xp in partition, 5 GB will be enough. Dave Rimmer Hi. Joel Thomas Minimum space 5gb. If you are going to be installing all of your applications on this partition as well, you will need to add the required space for all of the applications to this figure.
Follow the onscreen guide to configure XP's language and software settings. Enter your Windows XP product key into the boxes, then click "Next. Enter your computer name, administrative password, date and time and connection information to finish configuring Windows XP. Continue following the onscreen guide until you reach the "Welcome to Microsoft Windows" screen.
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Now, you can right click the unallocated partition and click New Partition. You need to specify partition size to the new partition. Usually, you can specify the total space of the unallocated partition to the new partition so as to create a new partition. Or you can only specify some space to the new partition and leave some unallocated space to create one more partition. Assign a drive letter to the new partition and then wait the system to format it.
If you want to redistribute disk space on the whole hard disk, you need to delete all partitions except system partition on the hard disk. After deleting all partitions on Windows XP, you will see an unallocated partition in Disk Management. Then, you can follow the guide above to create new partition and allocate reasonable disk space to each partition. You need to move all important data to another device before deleting partitions on your computer because all data will be deleted after deleting the partition.
With this partition tool, you can add increase size of system partition by adding unallocated space to it.
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