Hi, I am in process of buying new Dell Laptop with Windows7 pro having 500Gb HDD. Since it will come as a single partition, I plan to make partitions immediately since Win7 has the shrink volume option. I want some suggestions :
1) How much space should I leave for main C: partition which will contain Win7+other programs. I think Win7 takes up lot of space itself. Would 80-90Gb be enough?
2) Considering a 4Gb or 6Gb RAM, should I go for a separate partition for pagefile? Should this be in the middle or end of the HDD. Or should I leave it in C: drive itself, which means I would have to leave more space here.
3) I am planning 2 more partitions say 180-200 Gb each, one for data and other for non-essential stuff and image of the c: partition. I will do data backup on an external disk.
This sound OK, any other suggestions?
Forgot to mention, it will be 64Bit Win7 Pro and processor is C2D 2.53GHz
1) How much space should I leave for main C: partition which will contain Win7+other programs. I think Win7 takes up lot of space itself. Would 80-90Gb be enough?
2) Considering a 4Gb or 6Gb RAM, should I go for a separate partition for pagefile? Should this be in the middle or end of the HDD. Or should I leave it in C: drive itself, which means I would have to leave more space here.
3) I am planning 2 more partitions say 180-200 Gb each, one for data and other for non-essential stuff and image of the c: partition. I will do data backup on an external disk.
This sound OK, any other suggestions?
Forgot to mention, it will be 64Bit Win7 Pro and processor is C2D 2.53GHz
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