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Hi Everyone.
This look sa really busy forum - great.
This week Im going to build my new PC and install Win7 64bit onto a new 500GB HDD. Ive built several PCs over the years - my first 386 in 1991 - but havent done it again since building my Barton Athlon. Its past its best and so im needing to start again and Im also keen to get to grips with Win7.
Any advice on partitioning ?
Ive previously (on my XPsystem) put system and program files into one partition and used to other partitions for my own data.
Im thinking that I probably only really need 2 partitions in total (C and D). How large would you recommend I make the C drive partition for win 7 64bit with MS Office & photoshop plus the usual extra stuff everybody seems to acquire.
I realise this is a bit a daft question (how long is a piece of string sort of question) but basically I dont want to make it too small but also dont want to have too much wasted space.
This look sa really busy forum - great.
This week Im going to build my new PC and install Win7 64bit onto a new 500GB HDD. Ive built several PCs over the years - my first 386 in 1991 - but havent done it again since building my Barton Athlon. Its past its best and so im needing to start again and Im also keen to get to grips with Win7.
Any advice on partitioning ?
Ive previously (on my XPsystem) put system and program files into one partition and used to other partitions for my own data.
Im thinking that I probably only really need 2 partitions in total (C and D). How large would you recommend I make the C drive partition for win 7 64bit with MS Office & photoshop plus the usual extra stuff everybody seems to acquire.
I realise this is a bit a daft question (how long is a piece of string sort of question) but basically I dont want to make it too small but also dont want to have too much wasted space.