HD Partitioning

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I want to partition my HD so that one partition runs windows vista x64 while the other partition stores all my data, but idk how large the partition should be for the vista OS. Suggestions please

(the HD is 298 GB)

Also, I am aware that the shared docs folder would be on the OS's partition, is there any way to make the shared docs stored on the "data" partition?

Thank you

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Forgot to ask this: If down the road i were to reformat the OS partition, how would all the programs and games installed on the data partition work? would the os recognize the program files and everything or would i be able to make it recognize etc.
 
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That will first depend on how many softwares you plan to install. If you capture videos or work with other large files you will want upwards to 50% for the primary. For the average user for that size of drive a good 80-120gb usually works and leaves plenty of room for the secondary storage partition. The shared documents folder is installed on the partiion/drive by Windows itself. You can make a copy of it on the second partition if you have administrative access.
 
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so then I should install all games/apps and all other programs on the primary, then use the secondary only for storage of music/video/other large files, correct?

Also, where should the paging file be? on the primary or secondary partition and how big should it be if i have 2 gigs ram and an e6600?
 
I do that stuff already having more then one drive installed. The second drive was split at one time with a storage partition for just that. Generally the best performance and smooth operation of any installed programs is on the same partition as the OS. You will want to have enough space there for various programs and some files stored in folders you create on your own while backing things up and main storage on the second.

With the paging file you have four options to look when running more then one actual drive. 1)custom sized 2) system managed 3)no paging file set 4) for placement on drive other then OS drive like a second hard drive. This would be part of the first option there.
 
I generally keep the paging file here on the OS drive since I multi OS my drives! You can use either while the actual best move is the default drive. If you later decide to OS or remove the second drive this won't have any large effect on the host.

As you will see from the screen shot here to provide the visual reference in order to access the virtual memory settings you first right click on the MyComputer icon to bring up the properties menu. A fast click on the advanced tab seen on the upper left properties screen is where you click on the performance settings button that opens the screen seen here on the right side where the advanced tab is again opened. There to get into the virtual memory section you click on the change button to see the bottom screen here open.

Presently I have the paging file settings at twice the amount of physical memory installed due to running larger capacity drives. For troubleshooting the paging file option is often set to none.

 
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