How much space have you allocated to Boot Camp Windows?

[dXTC]

My Bootcamp partition is approximately 60 Gb, and it houses Windows XP, Cakewalk SONAR, audio files, and little else. I have a secondary FAT32 partition, about 30Gb, on my external HD to transfer files between OS X and XP, and for additional audio files. The primary reasons I use Bootcamp are for remote server/application admin (my "day job" is healthcare IT) and Cakewalk SONAR, which is a Windows-only app in which I've invested too much money and musical effort to replace. In fact, it's primarily why I waited until Leopard came out to buy my iMac.

I have no games currently installed beyond what came with Windows; I'm not much of a gamer. I tried Star Trek: Armada, but it didn't run particularly smoothly (it is a relatively old game, after all), so I removed it.

 

[uberamd]

perhaps you need reading comprehension refreshers. He was referring to my installation, not his. Why else would he tell me I should have more than 50GB of space?? What would I care what his installation size is, as I'm sure his size is for what he needs and plans to do?

Are you ok? You seem crabby. I was simply trying to offer some advice. I figured thats what the point of this forum was, and specifically this topic. I was giving you some personal experience I had on the topic and you talk down on me like I am coming out of right field with it. Why do you even start a thread if you are going to attack comments that are simply trying to help you out.

...on the internet, everyone is a genius.

Look in the mirror. Sorry, so many people here are kind but the way you acted over some simple advice was childish. You start a thread and the second someone states that maybe you should have allocated more space (and I used an example from MY system) you get on the defensive. It was a suggestion so I don't know what your problem is. I was simply trying to give some helpful advice.

 

[umiwangu]

My Bootcamp partition is approximately 60 Gb, and it houses Windows XP, Cakewalk SONAR, audio files, and little else. I have a secondary FAT32 partition, about 30Gb, on my external HD to transfer files between OS X and XP, and for additional audio files. The primary reasons I use Bootcamp are for remote server/application admin (my "day job" is healthcare IT) and Cakewalk SONAR, which is a Windows-only app in which I've invested too much money and musical effort to replace. In fact, it's primarily why I waited until Leopard came out to buy my iMac.

I have no games currently installed beyond what came with Windows; I'm not much of a gamer. I tried Star Trek: Armada, but it didn't run particularly smoothly (it is a relatively old game, after all), so I removed it.

Just use MacFUSE. Makes living with an NTFS partition so much easier...

 

[spinedoc77]

Looking at this in reverse, anyone care to guess what the smallest OSx partition I can use? OSx for now and SL in the near future. I won't be installing any programs or using OSx other than to let me upgrade firmwares so need the smallest possible size as I only have 120gb to work with.

 

[contitego]

...on the internet, everyone is a genius.

it wasn't an internet test.
my act/sat results were consisant with it as well.

It was a Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, something you wouldn't know about it.

Again, keep arguing. You couldn't even read the I's in the kids post. I don't expect you to understand.

ubermad states above he was talking about HIS pc. You can not read.

 

[Beric]

20GB for win7 RC. All I need.

 

[umiwangu]

it wasn't an internet test.
my act/sat results were consisant with it as well.

It was a Wechsler Individual Achievement Test, something you wouldn't know about it.

Again, keep arguing. You couldn't even read the I's in the kids post. I don't expect you to understand.

ubermad states above he was talking about HIS pc. You can not read.

I think she/he meant that online, you can pose as whoever you want...

 

[contitego]

I think she/he meant that online, you can pose as whoever you want...

I understand. He needs to learn how to read the statement given from the poster about his pc.