Thinking of doing a re-install what partition size for W7 64

bigjimmyauk · 23 Jan 2011 at 04:21

Want to get a re-install underway and was thinking of this time putting W7 on it's own partition to save all the other crap getting jumbled in with it

Any recommendations as to what size partition to use for the OS and also whether this is a good idea or not lol

Buchanan0204 · 23 Jan 2011 at 04:28

Great idea. It means if you need to reinstall or the OS becomes corrupt, then all your data is safely sitting on another partition.

The size all depends on how much you want to install. It's a personal preference really, there's no right or wrong. Just make sure you to use the first partition for windows and second for storage.

bigjimmyauk · 23 Jan 2011 at 04:34

Buchanan0204 said:
Great idea. It means if you need to reinstall or the OS becomes corrupt, then all your data is safely sitting on another partition.

The size all depends on how much you want to install. It's a personal preference really, there's no right or wrong. Just make sure you to use the first partition for windows and second for storage.

As in say i have a 1TB F3 so maybe 100GB for the first partition which will leave me circa 830GB for the other partition can i stick all my 400gb steam folder on the other partition and are there any cons to having the OS on it's own partition?

Buchanan0204 · 23 Jan 2011 at 04:36

bigjimmyauk said:
As in say i have a 1TB F3 so maybe 100GB for the first partition which will leave me circa 830GB for the other partition can i stick all my 400gb steam folder on the other partition and are there any cons to having the OS on it's own partition?

No Cons what so ever. I setup a system earlier today and did exactly that, 100GB for OS... 97GB to be exact and the remainder went on storage.

You can indeed install steam to your storage drive.

bigjimmyauk · 23 Jan 2011 at 04:43

Buchanan0204 said:
No Cons what so ever. I setup a system earlier today and did exactly that, 100GB for OS... 97GB to be exact and the remainder went on storage.

You can indeed install steam to your storage drive.

Sounds good, so when i install steam again i just select the storage drive as it's install location and not the OS drive (partition)

EniGmA1981 · 23 Jan 2011 at 06:20

I've got 150GB of my 500GB drive for OS, I was going to drop it to 100 when I installed 7, but I forgot

so yeah, 100GB will do it fine

jester600 · 23 Jan 2011 at 06:56

I've been running my OS on seperate partitions now for years, makes reinstallations so much easier. I use a 60Gb partition size, which was getting a bit full when i used Vista after 2 years of updates but now i'm running a new(ish) win7 installation i've got 25Gb of free space