Dauntless
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+2,249|7021|London

I have a 500gb Hard drive which I'm going to partition into two, one for all my films/games/documents and the other for the OS.

I have only installed XP so far, but now I'm going to vista what size should I make the OS partition?
https://imgur.com/kXTNQ8D.png
Naturn
Deeds, not words.
+311|6885|Greenwood, IN
I'm getting ready to build a PC and i'm getting 2 HDDs 1 160GB and the other 500GB.  So I would say 160GB for OS and installs and the rest for files.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6476|Winland

I wouldn't recommend doing that. If your computer needs to swap whiles it's reading something from the other partition (Loading a game map, loading a movie, etc) it'll put the hard drive under tremendous strain, moving the head from the end of the drive to the start, swapping, loading, swapping, loading. It gives you horrible performance issues and decreases the life span of the HDD. Get another cheap HD for a C:, and you're set.
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
Catbox
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+505|6995
6000gb... to be safe
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