Need 32 GB?

[nctorr07]

Hey Everyone,

Do I need to have 32 GB when I partition my HD? I'm planning on installing a few small programs on Windows and I think 32 GB is overkill. Am I able to make a 10 GB partition and still use an NTFS format?

Thanks!

 

[SilentPanda]

You should be fine at 10GB. Just know that you can really up the space easily later unless you use a secondary hard drive to install things on.

 

[wesrk]

You should be fine at 10GB. Just know that you can really up the space easily later unless you use a secondary hard drive to install things on.

you mean increase the size of the partition?
is this done through disk utility?

 

[Shake 'n' Bake]

Hey Everyone,

Do I need to have 32 GB when I partition my HD? I'm planning on installing a few small programs on Windows and I think 32 GB is overkill. Am I able to make a 10 GB partition and still use an NTFS format?

Thanks!

I used XP with ~10 GB and it ran fine. I installed everything but the OS on an external HDD. If this is for games, I know this: FSX has better performance through USB than FireWire 400.

 

[John89]

you mean increase the size of the partition?
is this done through disk utility?

Nope, you have to use something like WinClone

You use that to copy your partion to your OSX desktop (or anywhere you like really), then you delete your Windows partion with Bootcamp, create a new bigger one with Bootcamp, and them you can go back to Winclone to write the windows image to the new partion.

 

[wesrk]

Nope, you have to use something like WinClone

You use that to copy your partion to your OSX desktop (or anywhere you like really), then you delete your Windows partion with Bootcamp, create a new bigger one with Bootcamp, and them you can go back to Winclone to write the windows image to the new partion.

thanks for the info, I've been wondering how to do that for a little while now.

 

[Shawny D]

Out of the 19.8 GB of formatted space in my Boot Camp partition, Windows 7 RC x86 only takes up 9.7 GB.