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 Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:13 am Post subject: Re: ANY reason not to turn off System Restore for non-boot d |
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On Dec 30, 3:04 pm, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
| Quote: | In my view, it makes no sense to restrict oneself to a small system
partition when you have a drive anywhere near as big as 1TB.
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Well, I don't look at it as restricting myself, I look at it as making
it much faster to do backups and restores. I do have 25 GB reserved
for the C drive in case I ever need it, with currently 10GB allocated
to C, and 15 unused. The Acronis software makes it a snap to
reallocate the used/unused if I run out of room, but in the last five
years I haven't needed more than 10GB. |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: Re: ANY reason not to turn off System Restore for non-boot d |
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:58:21 -0500, "R. McCarty"
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| Quote: | Vista has a significantly larger footprint because of the folder \WinSxS
in the Windows folder tree.
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Which is why I pointed out that restricting the size of the system
partition to a low number is not wise. The operating system you run
today is not necessarily the one you will be running tomorrow.
| Quote: | A standard install will have around 4.0
Gigabytes of data inside WinSxS. Side-by-Side is the methodology to
prevent the DllHell issue that has affected previous Windows versions.
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:22:44 +0100, "Pegasus \(MVP\)"
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
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In my experience 20 GBytes is generous for a system partition,
even for a server, as long all user data is kept on a separate
partition. My current system partition for WinXP Professional
requires just 8 GBytes. It is fully loaded with the usual apps
including various sound and picture processing programs and
lots of diagnostic stuff (e.g. the TRK), plus the paging file.
Each to his own. My system partition is 100GB, and 56GB of it is used
(no user data there). That's running Windows Vista Ultimate, but even
for those running XP, one never knows what operating system one may
upgrade to in the future.
In my view, it makes no sense to restrict oneself to a small system
partition when you have a drive anywhere near as big as 1TB.
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56 GBytes is huge. It would be interesting to see the space
profile on your system partition. Here is mine. The first number
represents "bytes", the second "files".
0 0 C:\My Download Files
85 2 C:\Recycled
69,362 48 C:\RECYCLER
377,040 1 C:\Config.Msi
38,482,686 329 C:\MYOB105
175,243,430 1,822 C:\Documents and Settings
232,892,982 98 C:\MSOCache
778,841,422 10 C:\
1,538,539,221 13,564 C:\Program Files
1,663,555,395 2,991 C:\System Volume Information
3,553,344,512 18,644 C:\WINDOWS
7,981,346,135 37,509 (Total)
Without going into great detail, the great majority of it is in two
folders: \Windows and \Users
Ken
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:43 am Post subject: Re: ANY reason not to turn off System Restore for non-boot d |
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On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:13:29 -0800 (PST), a2mgoog@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | On Dec 30, 3:04 pm, "Ken Blake, MVP"
kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
In my view, it makes no sense to restrict oneself to a small system
partition when you have a drive anywhere near as big as 1TB.
Well, I don't look at it as restricting myself, I look at it as making
it much faster to do backups and restores.
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??? Why do you think a backup or restore will be faster if the system
partition is smaller? Are you imaging the entire drive or just backing
up data?
Either way, the partition size shouldn't matter.
| Quote: | I do have 25 GB reserved
for the C drive in case I ever need it, with currently 10GB allocated
to C, and 15 unused. The Acronis software makes it a snap to
reallocate the used/unused if I run out of room, but in the last five
years I haven't needed more than 10GB.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:18 am Post subject: Re: ANY reason not to turn off System Restore for non-boot d |
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On Dec 30, 4:43 pm, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote:
| Quote: | ??? Why do you think a backup or restore will be faster if the system
partition is smaller? Are you imaging the entire drive or just backing
up data?
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I am imaging the system partition. I must be missing your point,
because it seems obvious to me that a smaller partition would take
less time to back up. |
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