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    partitions on m17x on 1TB raid 0

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by bigelvis, Aug 13, 2009.

  1. bigelvis

    bigelvis Notebook Guru

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    Hi Guys

    Today I'm expecting to be delivered my m17x with vista home premium 64bit. I'd like to instal windows 7 as well, what do You think guys what is the best set up for partitions? Is 200gb primary partition for vista, windows 7 and installed programs and 800gb partition for games, music, movies good idea? or maybe create separate partition for vista and installed software, seperate for 7 and installed software and seperate for games ,movies, music etc???
     
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    airplaneman Notebook Deity

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    I don't think you can have 2 OS's on one partition..depending on how many programs you have, I would put 200GB for Vista, 200GB for Win7 and 600GB for the rest. I personally always make my OS drives quite large (usually 300GB) just to make sure I have enough space for all my programs/games.
     
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