Re: Is 30Gb going to be big enough for vista system files and programs?

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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 05:06:14 +0100, "Spikey" <.> wrote:


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On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 03:19:26 +0100, "Spikey" <.> wrote:

Hi

I recently did a clean install of home premium, during which I divided up
the 110 Gb drive. I now have 10Gb on the recovery partition; 30 Gb on C:
the
system drive and the remainder on D:. for documents etc.

With everything pretty much installed I have used 20 Gb on C: leaving
10Gb
free.

I've read a couple of posts with Vista gobbling up 28 Gb after a short
period of time. So do you think the 30 Gb will be enough long term?? To be
honest thought it would be plenty but am now wishing I'd upped the size of
it a bit more.

Opinions greafully received.

Short answer, probably not. If all you have left now is 10 GB that's
next to nothing and the paging file assuming it also is on the same
drive as well as the drive itself is already starved for wiggle room.


I was rapidly coming to that conclusion. :o(

At the moment D: hasnt got anything on it as I havent put the docs back on
yet. I'm afraid I'm stuck with 110Gb overall for the forseeable future
finances being what they are.

So how would you deal with it. Given that I have it all updated now. Would
you start again and do a clean install or just shrink D:? Ive havent used
this feature before. Presumably I shrink D: then extend C: ??

Thanks.

If your install of Vista is stable and you've applied updates and you
don't have some recent "image" that includes these changes that you
could restore everything from then doing a clean install would be a
pain and require redoing all that from scratch plus reinstalling all
your software. So I wouldn't. The only time you should do a clean
install is if things are so screwed up it makes the best sense,
otherwise never. So yes, I would say your best choice is to reduce the
size of your D partition and extend C.

I have never tried doing it directly from any build-in Windows tools,
but have using third party software many times and the process is
relatively safe. The main risk is if something bad happens while the
change is being made everything could end up toast so be sure you have
backups of your most critical stuff first.
.

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