Hy experts, on tuesday Im going to install Win7 on my new Compu ( waiting for my new processor ) I have a1 TB Harddisk and whenever i Installed a system ( mostly XP ) I was using one partition only for the system and one for programms/data. Is this recommandable although for Win7 ? I will install the 64bit Version. How much space should I consider for the System partition ? I have seen that Win7 when im partioning the harddisc reserves a own partiton für his system files. Can give me someone an advice how i should partiton my harddisc before installing the new system..... MY config of the new PC PhenomII 810 4 GB Memory 1 TB harddisk Thanks
System partition should be from 80 Gb to 160 Gb, depending how much softs you will install and if you'll also installs games.
Always i install only the system on c: and all programs and software on d: for example. So 80 GB only for the system is very big i think
I format my hard drive the same way as well. A small(er) "Main" partition, strictly for a Windows install, plus enough space to fit the "Program Files" folder for key utilities that I install. Games and non-essential programs always reside on a larger, secondary partition. ( Generally D:\ ) This avoids the need to reinstall dozens of games, which requires digging out tons of CDs/DVDs, then manually patching/updating each of them. (Yeah, just not my idea of a good time.) I backup all required Registry settings, for games that get cranky and refuse to run without their respective registry settings, and keep those in a "Registry Backup" folder, also located on my Backup partition. Lastly, should my OS manage to get itself infected with a trojan/virus/worm, and I cant recover via Safe Mode, I simply format my main partition, reinstall Windows, and my Backup partition is untouched and it's contents ready-to-run once I reload proper drivers. I've done this from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, and aside from user-error during a botched partition resizing (twice ), I have never lost data I needed due to a virus/worm/trojan. --DKnight