Partition size limit windows xp




















This is how to convert disk to GPT. If you want to perform the operation without loading operating system, you can create a bootable media via the software first of all. If you need to make a conversion after employing one of the partition table, you can use the AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional to get it done without data loss. Still Need Help? Have your problem been solved? If not, please input query in the search box below.

Once you put in how much space you want to use, it will fill in the un-allocated space with the remainder of the empty room on the drive. Kevin H Yeah, I'd say at least 10gb.

For me, I like to give some buffer so I'll give Oron Joffe Sandra, I agree with Bruce, there's no single figure because it all depends As you can see, the basic size of the OS is not the main issue, but rather the other things that go with it, applications, temp files, installation backup files e.

As a rough guide, I'd suggest 5GB minimum for the OS, more for applications if they go on the same drive. Since you are partitioning anyway, create a separate partition for the page file and set the page file to a fixed size you can accept the size recommend by the system.

If you are keeping the OS, applications, page file and hibernation files all on the same drive, I'd suggest 30GB as a minimum, and if your hard disc allows , increase the size further up to about 80GB if you have plenty of space. Arpit Nadda If you want to install windows xp in partition, 5 GB will be enough.

Dave Rimmer Hi. Joel Thomas Minimum space 5gb. If you are going to be installing all of your applications on this partition as well, you will need to add the required space for all of the applications to this figure. If you will be storing your data on this partition as well, you will need to account for these storage requirements as well. My XP Pro partition is 40GB, but it is only used for a few games that don't run well on later versions of Windows, testing some of my own custom software, and no data is stored on this partition.

Even the installs of downloaded games are stored on different hard disks. Because of these factors, only 12GB of the partition is currently used. Alan Wade 50Gb these days is very little hard drive space. If you dont plan on installing loads of games and programs that should be plenty. If you plan on having loads of games and programs take it up to Gb Chadi El Haj You have to keep in mind that your page file and. Tharindu Ariyaratne OK.. I installed XP on the 20Gb one and worked without any headaches.

And you can install most of commonly used software but No big Games.. No high-end applications such as Photoshop, Maya, and I'm not recommend to install other programs in another partition as well, let all programs to be only in the C drive. There was no answer in the Windows XP SP3 forum either except somebody mentioned they had a GB primary partition and it functioned.

It is a mystery to me why Microsoft apparently doesn't publish whatever limitation there might be. I spent two days combing the technet and there doesn't seem to be an answer for this available anywhere! For primary partition, the limit is 2 Tb. This is a native limit of MBR disks. To run 3 or 4 Tb hard disk with a single partition, you need to make it GPT-type. So did I for my 3 Tb disk. Thanks a lot for the answer. Actually it was late when I wrote that I didn't word my question properly.

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