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Thread created 02-02-2013 by cheneg
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Post #57317244 added 02-02-2013 10:18 AM by RockySosua in Archived Deals
If you want to have XP work well, you'll give it at least 20 gigs of space and 80 gigs fo 7. Bear in mind that an OS will slow down substantially, when the drive is more than 50% full. App data...
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Post #57314660 added 02-02-2013 7:40 AM by cheneg in Archived Deals
ok i'm about to start fresh and make 3 partitions on the 1tb drive.windowsxp/windows7 and rest for gaming and apps.whats the minimum reccomended of space i should give each os? is 20gig ok?
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Post #57314986 added 02-02-2013 8:04 AM by ReverseHandedJO in Archived Deals
he didnt say 32 or 64, but i can see 64 needing more space. my winxp was 10 when i last reinstalled it with the service packs and updates.
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Post #57315072 added 02-02-2013 8:11 AM by boltman2007 in Archived Deals
XP depends a lot on what else is taking up space... Size of SP3 is only about 320MB That being said it doesn't hurt to make XP partition larger. I'd say 15 GB is fine
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Post #57327648 added 02-02-2013 8:50 PM by ReverseHandedJO in Archived Deals
you can try to pre-partition the HDD before installing winXP, but the last couple of times that i installed winXP it did not recognize the partitioning of the HDD. so what i had to do is install...
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Post #57314734 added 02-02-2013 7:45 AM by ReverseHandedJO in Archived Deals
i have xp on 15 and win7 on 20 with just a little bit of free space. when i pre-partitioned the HDD winxp did not like it, so i had to let winxp install, then run a partition program. keep in...
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Post #57315504 added 02-02-2013 8:42 AM by cheneg in Archived Deals
ok cool.so when installing windowsxp i would select size as 15,000,000,000 bytes correct?
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Post #57314888 added 02-02-2013 7:56 AM by boltman2007 in Archived Deals
Windows 7 requires 20GB x64.... I would recommend 40GB and give it room to grow. Most native boot VHDs are 40GB for that reason. XP only needs < 1.5GB but most recommend 4GB for minimum... more...

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