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What size is your BC partition??
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safetyobc
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I used 10GB for XP Pro. I have about 6GB left after installation and a few programs I use.
I only went with 10GB because my 160 GB drive is filling up fast. I only have about 40 GB of free space left on OS X. I'll probably need to upgrade to a larger drive in about a year, maybe less.
This is my first Mac, but it really hurt my feelings to install Windows on her.
I only went with 10GB because my 160 GB drive is filling up fast. I only have about 40 GB of free space left on OS X. I'll probably need to upgrade to a larger drive in about a year, maybe less.
This is my first Mac, but it really hurt my feelings to install Windows on her.
What size is your BC partition??
Well, I have divided my 160gb MBP drive equally between MACOS and WINXP (FAT32 for better Win/MacOS compatibility).
Then I got an excellent and fast external G-Drive FireWire800 drive also equally divided btw MacOSX and WinXP (FAT32 also) partitions. I plan to put all my voluminous data on the external drive, so as to keep the MBP internals lean.
- RT
Well, I have divided my 160gb MBP drive equally between MACOS and WINXP (FAT32 for better Win/MacOS compatibility).
Then I got an excellent and fast external G-Drive FireWire800 drive also equally divided btw MacOSX and WinXP (FAT32 also) partitions. I plan to put all my voluminous data on the external drive, so as to keep the MBP internals lean.
- RT
I set my Windows XP Pro partition to 10GB as I'm only forced to access it twice a year for a total of 4 weeks.
MimicBunion972
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🙄The partition really depends on what you are going to do with windows. I play games like Gears of War, which eats 5G - 10G HD space each. So I got 150G for vista, 60-80G are games files. Though you can install games on external HD, they run much much faster on the internal 7K200 HD.
I allocated 5gb of my 80gb hard drive to Windows XP. I store all of my games, just Civilization IV and Sim City 4 for now, on my 500gb external hard drive.
I only gave 30GB to my Boot Camp partition and I greatly regret it. I am basically using XP for gaming only...and after I started installing games, I realized it wasn't enough. I constantly have to delete game demos to make room for new game installs.