Right now I currently have a macbook with 160 gig hard drive. I was thinking about using 50 or so gigs for Windows 7. Do you feel that this amount will be enough or should I look into upgrading my hard drive?
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Your opinion on Win 7 partition.
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No one can tell you what size to set your partition to. It depends what programs you need to install, whether or not you plan on storing photos, movies, etc. on your Windows partition. Just figure that you should have ~10GB set aside in your estimate for Windows itself, 10GB for system restore snapshots, and at least 15% of the total partition size set aside as free space so that Windows can effectively defragment itself.
QFT. Sorry if that is harsh but, the question you have to answer us is, what will you be doing on it?
Windows 7 + System Restore information. Windows Vista and 7 also copy the installation files to the disc, which takes up extra space. There's also a file for hibernation, which is equal in size to your RAM.
What Bill Gates said, and yes its ridiculous when you compare file number comparisons. Number of files on my Mac partition = 428,151. On the Win7 partition, 4,103,060,782. Just kind of funny
Is there a way to reduce the footprint of 7? My install is using a similar amount of space and it is a problem for me as I now have too little space to install games.
Unlike Snow Leopard, which takes up like 12 GB? Or Leopard, which takes up even more?
Oh, er- I mean "wInDo$ sUx lololololol"
What Bill Gates said, and yes its ridiculous when you compare file number comparisons. Number of files on my Mac partition = 428,151. On the Win7 partition, 4,103,060,782. Just kind of funny
You do not have 4,103,060,782 files on your Win7 partition.
The smallest Windows partition that could store that many
files would have a size of 15.29 terabytes.