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How big a partition should I make for Windows 7?

  • 11-09-2011 01:58AM
    #1
    dito kou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    I'm putting it on a 1000GB HDD that I want to stick Ubuntu on at some stage aswell, so to allow for programs, updates and Windows 7 itself at 20GB, how much space should I partition for it?

    40GB would probably do Linux so should I just stick Windows on the remaining 960GB?

    Or maybe give it 100GB (C) Linux 40GB (D) and Storage 860GB (E)?


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  • #2
    johnmcdnl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,739 ✭✭✭johnmcdnl


    ideally you should keep the OS away from your files in case the OS breaks and goes blue screen on you.. so your second suggestion of 100GB, 40GB and 860GB looks alright... this means when you have to reinstall Windows you'll not have to worry about your files being lost....

    (assuming 100GB is enough space for all your programs/game installs etc etc)


    just make sure to install Windows before Linux because Windows overwrites the Linux bootloader and then you have to reconfigure it - not hard to do but it's effort basically...


  • #3
    jnaseer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭jnaseer


    Hi,
    You can use that outstanding 860GB partition for files that can be accessed from both Linux and Windows as Linux has an NTFS driver available.

    Johan.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,168 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    AFAIK there isn't a stable ext3 driver for windows 7 that can handle ubuntu's 256 inode size.

    www.fs-driver.org - may work in windows 7 if you F8 boot into the "use dodgy driver" option and ignore all the warnings, but you may need 32 bit windows 7 AND you MUST have formatted the ext volumes with an inode size of 128 before installing ubuntu. (for other versions of windows I'd recommend it but you have to do a bit of prep work for ubuntu)


    short version , use NTFS for the common data store for now.


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