Super-clean pretty Windows installs

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » July 8th, 2007, 20:44

Well, after finally fixing my sister's PC (Mainly due to laziness rather than any major techie issues).. I have got my windoze computer back. Except; she's shitted it up with all her teenage girlie things, so I'm gonna try for a clean install, and after putting Ubuntu on her computer; I want the same for mine as a dual-boot.

I have 2 hard drives, both IDE 7000rpm, one is 80GB, one is 60GB.

Ideally I'd like to have a boot partition for the windows one, a data partition for windows, and an ubuntu partition. How do you think I should go about placing these partitions? ie. Which disk? What sizes?

Many Thanks

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 8th, 2007, 20:54

I'd use the 80gb hdd for windows, the 60 for linux.

*but* use 5gb of the 60gb for windows page file and 5 of the 80gb for the linux swap files or whatever it uses.

but that's just me.

pixie pie · Post by **pixie pie** » July 8th, 2007, 20:56

And, how big should the boot partition be for windows? I've heard you say thats a lot easier if I want to clean out the data bit sometimes?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 8th, 2007, 21:01

depends how you want to do it.

I'd use 10gb if for windows only. 25-150gb if for windows and apps.

edit now i'm not mid-beef:

what I generally* do is use 3 partitions for windows.

Partition 1 : Big enough for windows and apps (probably 30-50gb for me fully loaded
Partition 2: My documents, probably only 10-15 gb, but all that stuff you don't wanna lose
Partition 3: downloads. massive turnover/fragmentation.

Personally I like to use one drive for partition 1, and another for 2 and 3.

Obviously, depends on your moods, how you do stuff and such

*Currently a 280gb windows partition and 4 storage HDDs, the my docs folder resides on one of them.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » July 9th, 2007, 9:27

This is roughly how I have my two disks setup, only I got rid of Linux because I wasn't using it.

60GB:
1) 100MB - /boot (Linux)
2) 25GB - C: (Windows)
3) 25GB - / (Linux)
4) 5GB - Windows paging file
5) 5GB - Linux swap file

80GB:
1 big partition seen by both OSes, Linux can use NTFS or FAT these days.
or
1) SomeGB - D: (Applications/Games)
2) SomeGB - E: (Downloads/Music/Video)

Fred Woogle · Post by **Fred Woogle** » July 15th, 2007, 3:34

Raid Raptors
Partition 1: 30gb - Windows & Apps
Partition 2: 151gb or so - Games
Partition 3: 100gb - Back Up Storage & Documents

Storage Drives
500gb - Movies & Downloading
120gb - TV & things waiting to go to disc
300gb - Music

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » July 15th, 2007, 21:47

I currently go:

Disk one (Brand spanking new 250gb Sata2 drive *not actually running at sata2 yet...drivers and flashing to do):

C: (25gb)
25gb for Windoze and System Apps (like Werd/Excel/Winamp/TS/Vent etc)

D: (5gb)
My Want to keep werk / MyDocs actual document backups (important word files, college/uni work etc)

E: (203gb)
The rest of the first disk for other apps, like photoshop, some games that I don't play often.

Disk 2:
H: (186gb after format)

Stuffs, some other apps. Lots of games/movies/torrents/downloadz/crap.
Also music and the other documents, although that might move to E: soon.

Also, note: Clean windows installs are a lie these days, this one was freshly installed the other night, only got drivers and a couple of other programs, but windows update spams your disk with rubbish.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » July 15th, 2007, 21:50

windows slipstreams FTW.

Killavodka · Post by **Killavodka** » July 23rd, 2007, 14:20

400GB
100gb for windows + apps
300gb for game installs

500gb
Storage

Use windows partition for downloads then transfer to relevant part of storage drive post-download.