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Off topic what's the best way to remove virus's
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10-03-2012 9:51pm#1
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-Backup your data (don't forget data inside programs like e-mail, calendar, favorite sites, savegames, desktop, app data etc)
-Backup your network driver and internet settings
-Format your computer
-Partition your hard drive like so...
-C: First 40GB
-D: all remaining space
-Reinstall Windows
-Reinstall Drivers
-Reinstall Office
-Reinstall common apps (use ninite.com installer to save some time here)
-Reinstall other apps (exclude apps that want to install crap on your machine and toolbars in your browser)
-Install Firefox and use the 'adblock plus' plugin in 'add-ons'
-Configure control panel to your preferences.
-Apply all updates and patches from Windows Update (several reboots needed)
-Put your data on the
Drive, independent of your programs.
-Most importantly: Before you start using your PC: Make an image of your new perfect C: drive using a partition imaging tool on a boot CD, like ghost or partimage, and store the image file(s) on the drive. 0 -
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40GB is plenty for an OS and swap file, and small enough to make several image backups, move program files and users folders to point to drive
that said I wrote this guide a while back and people have more storage space. I'm sure even dublin gunner can't fit his entire steam directory on a single SSD?
the point is the method is a little time consuming at the start, but it's a small price to pay for the time saved and the ability to control a perfect clean OS at all times.0 -
40GB is plenty for an OS and swap file, and small enough to make several image backups, move program files and users folders to point to drive
that said I wrote this guide a while back and people have more storage space. I'm sure even dublin gunner can't fit his entire steam directory on a single SSD?
the point is the method is a little time consuming at the start, but it's a small price to pay for the time saved and the ability to control a perfect clean OS at all times.
I've said 60GB myself for win 7 x64 - purely based on my own experience, and nothing scientific about it at all.
This would have included space for swap files, system restore, drivers, probably a load of crap that saves itself to user files and folders etc as well, and not being too careful where certain files etc were going.
For instance - my users and program files take up 25.5GB - out of a total of 70GB used space on my OS drive, so there's definitely at least 25.5GB of space I could avoid using on my OS drive.
Obviously I, and anyeone that knows what they're doing can keep it a lot leaner, but in general I've told average users 60GB minimum - you guys think that's reasonable?0
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