How much disk space do you allocate for Windows?

peterattheboro · 23 Aug 2011 at 11:10

I thought I was being sensible in allocating 150GB to Windows and i've just noticed that I have 9GB free

These are all programs that I need and pictures and documents. Everything else (well, games, downloads and music) is saved on other drives.

So how much do you guys allocate?

I'm on Windows 7 64bit if that makes any difference.

whitecrook · 23 Aug 2011 at 11:29

I have win7 64 bit installed on a 60GB partition, once an 8GB hiber file and some apps and games installed I have approx 15GB free. Most stuff (games) is installed on an external.

slade · 23 Aug 2011 at 12:44

I have a 120 ssd for windows games apps and a few files but keep all my big stuff on another Tb hd. My external died the other day, not happy! i keep meaning to get another one for backing up.... (its on my list of things to do)

Razor-BladE · 23 Aug 2011 at 12:55

Why do you have pictures and documents on the OS drive? Surely it would make sense to have it on the others drives like your games/music.

I have 150GB for OS/Apps of which I've used 50GB, then have a 400GB partition for games which is almost full. Then a separate drive for storage.

peterattheboro · 24 Aug 2011 at 10:25

Razor-BladE said:
Why do you have pictures and documents on the OS drive? Surely it would make sense to have it on the others drives like your games/music.

I have 150GB for OS/Apps of which I've used 50GB, then have a 400GB partition for games which is almost full. Then a separate drive for storage.

Just habit and how my drives are layed out... I'd have to dedicate one of my drives specifically to my documents

[Damien] · 24 Aug 2011 at 12:34

150gb?! That's insane. How do you manage the usual periodic format/reinstall? Currently I've got a 64gb ssd for my OS/apps (not games) purely for the speed. All my other stuff is on a seperate HDD. Before getting the SSD I had a partition purely for windows (never more than 30gb), then everything else on separate partitions.

Mapping your user/profile folders to another drive/partition makes things so much easier, especially if you're the kind of person that saves stuff to their desktop/documents folder a lot. You can just install windows/drivers, move the profile folders then image the drive. From then on if you ever need a fresh install just restore the image and you're sorted.

Gammawolf · 24 Aug 2011 at 12:39

640GB boot drive/partition here

[Damien] · 24 Aug 2011 at 12:50

*twitch*

Please... Make it stop...

bledd · 24 Aug 2011 at 19:54

30GB on my Media centre + netbook
60gb on my Desktop pc

I always set Documents/Music/Pictures/Videos/Downloads to my second drive

Less of a hassle to restore an image of a hard drive if it's smaller and has no 'personal' files on it.