Re: Size of Boot Partition

If you let windows format drive standard is 8mb for boot


"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
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I agree with Ken Blake. There noting you can do by partitioning a one drive
system that will have a significant impact on performance. On a one drive
system the only real benefit to partitioning is organization. At a minimum
you will want 20 GB for the OS and programs. I prefer 30 GB to make sure
there is room for future growth. If you create a partition for data make
sure you redirect My Documents to this partition.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca



Thomas Young wrote:
I have a 120 GB HDD for my DELL 3.2 GHz laptop. Can anybody tell me
what size of partitions to make for the most optimum performance. I
would install MS Office, Visual Studio 6 and a few graphics programs
like Photo Shop and Corel. I will be grateful for the reply
Regards




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