Windows 7 Partition

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I'm not too sure which section this should be in, although I didn't want to cram up the hard drive section any more! So I thought this would be a reasonable place for the question. So, What is the best size partition to put windows 7 on, and windows 7 only. So if my computer messes up, I can just format that partition.
 
The stated requirements are 16GB for 32 bit, and 20GB for 64
but if your installing programs on it then i would add another 20gb's

edit: And you have the windows updates to add
 
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oh ok, well it's just gonna be win7, programs, media, games etc.. on another partition. So I reckon 35-45GB? I don't want to skim it too short! oh btw, I have a 640gb wd caviar black, with about 230gb of media/games/programs. Thanks anyway :) what do you reckon to that 35-45GB though ?
 
My Windows Partition is 146Gb of that I have 48Gb free this does not include my Steam games folder or My Documents, My Music and My Pictures!

Just a few games and all the other software I use :)
 
will the stuff I put on my primary partition, the one with win7 on, run faster?
 
Wiry said:
will the stuff I put on my primary partition, the one with win7 on, run faster?
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A small partition does have a slight advantage with seek times as the heads do not have to move so far.
I just use a 500Gb windows partition on a 1Tb drive. I have a 500Gb seperate drive for imaging the windows partition. This is probably a bit excessive.
 
upgrade or custom (advanced) ? just installing. BTW, i've took out my other C drive
 
I did it and it came up with a horrible nasty error:

windows failed to load because the system registry file is missing

bearing in mind that I have no drivers or anything on the drive. What shall I do ?
 
i clicked up on custom--all my data is backed up, and then I went on a formatted partition. with 75GB of space on it?
 
so all data is on the other hd leaving u with that 1 hd just for windows 7 , dont forget to disconnect the other hd if it is inside the system its recommended,
is it just 1 partition when u go into custom ?
 
My windows 7 64 bit ultimate was hovering around 24.5 GB until yesterday (I then downloaded service pack 1). I had to resize my partition upto 35GB, and now it's about 28.5GB used.

I would say you ideally want at least 50GB to not worry about it, if not 60GB if it's JUST the operating system on that partition.
 
Scougar said:
My windows 7 64 bit ultimate was hovering around 24.5 GB until yesterday (I then downloaded service pack 1). I had to resize my partition upto 35GB, and now it's about 28.5GB used.

I would say you ideally want at least 50GB to not worry about it, if not 60GB if it's JUST the operating system on that partition.
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I accept what your trying to say, but I can't even get it to work! This is my first install of windows anyway
 
Every time I try and re-install, it's coming up with error , after error, after error... bootmgr errors, disk read errors, WTF! its a western digital caviar black 640gbps sata 3 *6gbps*
 
How do I get a vista disk, and I'm running a FULL test on my Drive, It's just I think I've done it before *the extended test* and it passed! wtf!
 
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