Resonable HD Partition for Boot Camp

I'm getting ready to order my MBP today (FINALLY!!!) and am planning on running Boot Camp with Vista Home Premium. My question is: what would be a reasonable partition for the Windoze program on the hard drive? It will make a difference if I order the 120 hd or put in a 160 hd.

Thanks

 

As a mac and windows user, why do you need to refer to Vista as Windoze? And if you look down on the program why even bother running it in the first place? If it's not worthy of your high standards in an OS just use OSX.

To answer your question Vista H.P. takes roughly 8-10 gb leave enough space for additional programs i.e. Office etc.

 

I think he was making a joke, relax it's ok.

Anyway, a lot of it depends on how many programs and how much data you plan on storing on that partition. I had 20 GB with XP, and with a few large games, that can be a little tight, of course one of them was FS which is huge.

 

I was joking and apologize if I touched a sensitive nerve...

I was actually thinking of a few games and Corel Draw which I have had to use a lot. I need the partition, at least until I can fully make the transition from Wind ows to the Mac Os. I'll be going fully to InDesign asap, but financially it's not feasible right now.

So it seems logical that a 160 gig hd would be the advisable way to go as after the full transition is made one can always use the extra space.

 

That would work, or you may want to think about investing in an external drive. It would be annoying at first, but once you switch to OS X fully, you would have a great backup device. Just another option.

 

I have a 14GB partition for XP. The only things I'm using Windows for are c/c++ programming and Half Life 2. any other games I have will run on OS X. With all programs installed on that partition I'm left with a couple of free gigs. I have a 200gb external, and a 30 and a 12 gig porta-drive I made from old laptop hard drives.

I'd say If you're gonna run Draw and various games then you should use XP instead of Vista. There's just not enough driver support to warrant going to Vista, not to mention that it takes about 4gigs more space than XP does.

oh, and honestly it's cheaper to just get a 2.5" external drive than to upgrade to the 160. You can get 100gb porta-drives from newegg for under 100 bucks, so I'd think about doing that instead of upgrading from apple.

 

I did 20GB partition for Vista Business. Windows itself uses 8-9GB of space. this leaves you off with about 10-11GB for your games/programs.

 

I disagree entirely. Vista driver support has come a long way and unless you are running some unusual device then Vista is in my opinion the way to go. The only exception is in desktop sound cards... Driver support there is still very rough. For reference, when I installed Vista on a two year old Dell, all drivers were isntalled for me automatically. Try that with a standard XP disc... not gonna happen.

As far as the space concern goes, you can use VLite to trim Vista down to a much more easily manageable size. Removing extraneous drivers and languages goes a long way in cutting the install size.

Back to the main topic... I con't have a MBP, but I'm thinking of getting one.
My config would be something like this: 20GB OSX, 30GB Vista, remaining space would be a FAT32 partiton used for shared documents, music, and video.

 

I have around 30 GB set for Vista Ultimate and it takes up a hell of a lot of room. But it really depends what you plan on doing, which makes you decide how much space you want. Just remember that you really can't change it later on should you change your mind.

 

you can change it with a partition manager.