Norton's System Works had a performance setting that put the Swap file/Page file at the front of the hard drive as that it was
quickest and easiest to access.
So you might want to reserve C:drive for the Page file and personally I would make it twice the size of the RAM.
I would also have a separate partition for the temp directory as this can become seriously messy
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I have a new laptop on order from Dell and have been sort of getting a game plan together for how I want to set it up. It will
have Windows Vista SP1, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600...I will be running IV2009 on it and wanted to make
sure I got off on the right foot from the beginning.
I was wondering how everyone here has set up their partitions. I understand that you want to keep the OS separate from your
data, but I was wondering about the following:
Should all of my programs be installed to the OS partition? If so, how big should this partition be? From what i've read I
would want about 20GB for Vista and I checked my Programs folder on my current machine and it's around 8GB.
Should the Swap File have its own partition? If so, how big? If not, should it be on the data partition or the OS partition?
I'd appreciate any recommendations, input, advice any of you could give me since i'm sure many of you have more experience in
the "proper" way of setting up an IV machine than I do.