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Partition Recommendations

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Anonymous
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Partition Recommendations

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.
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Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

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


--
Duncan
"Humour ... is one man shouting gibberish in the face of authority, and proving by fabricated insanity that nothing could be
as mad as what passes for ordinary living."
(Terence 'Spike' Milligan K.B.E., 1918-2002)
www.autodesk.co.uk/inventorjobs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375


wrote in message news:5903405@discussion.autodesk.com...
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.
Message 3 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I've heard there are problems with Vista SP 1 and Inventor 2008. I
personally had a bunch of issues with SP1. A format and reinstall, leavie
SP1 off fixed me up.

--
Chris Breidenbaugh
chris at kvawelding dot com
KVA Resistance Welding Supply

HP Xeon xw8400 5150 2.66GHz
3071 MB RAM
Vista Business 32 Bit (No Service Packs)
Quadro FX1500 Driver 7.15.11.6262
IV 2008 Pro SP2
"ToddG" wrote in message news:5903405@discussion.autodesk.com...
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.
Message 4 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

il giorno 14/04/2008 15.01 ToddG ha scritto:

> Should all of my programs be installed to the OS partition?

No, most (all?) of them let the user choose the installation
directory. But I think that if you choose to split programs and data,
it's a good idea to install all programs into "C:\Program Files".

> 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?

Actually you can have the swap file in its own partition (this is the
norm in Linux, as swap space has its own filesystem) but, unless you
have a second hard disk to put swap in, I think that in Windows it is
not as important as to have a "static" file (i.e. not variable size,
i.e. min. size equals max. size), and this file NOT to be fragmented.
How big? There are religion wars about it, but I usually find that 1.5
up to 3.0 times RAM should be ok.


Hope it helps.
M.
Message 5 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

I don't know how much space Vista takes up but I'd go at least 40GB on the
C: drive (maybe 60 with your drive) and put the page file on C: also as
Duncan suggested. I've got 40GB on my XP C: drive with 12.8GB used. I have
moved My Documents to the 😧 drive & also install all apps there (My
Documents folder takes another 12.2GB). If for any reason I ever need to
scrap the OS I've still got all my files and most of the program settings
will be retained by just re-installing the apps.
Message 6 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

il giorno 14/04/2008 17.47 Dave Hoder ha scritto:
> I have moved My Documents to the 😧 drive & also install all apps
> there (My Documents folder takes another 12.2GB). If for any reason
> I ever need to scrap the OS I've still got all my files and most of
> the program settings will be retained by just re-installing the
> apps.

Why to install apps to 😧 if you have to reinstall them anyway?
Program setting aren't stored in apps folders, they are often in
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application DATA.

M.
Message 7 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

True but things get put into the My Programs folder that aren't stored in
Application Data. Using Inventor as an example there's a huge amount of
setup (for a single user) in the Program Files folder.

>Program setting aren't stored in apps folders, they are often in
C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application DATA.

M.
Message 8 of 8
Anonymous
in reply to: Anonymous

So just thinking out loud here I could have:

C: - OS, Swap File (8GB), Program files - 50GB

T: - Temp files - 2GB (?)

G: - Data - 268GB


As long as I keep an image of my C: partition I should be covered as far as rebuilding, correct?

My data (G: partition) will be backed up to another computer

Is there anything I should know about locating the Temp directory on a different drive? And would I need to keep this separate even if I keep it cleaned out?

Also, has there been any reports of problems with IV2009 and Vista? I probably won't install 2008 on this machine so I guess I wouldn't have to worry about the SP1 glitch.



Thanks for all of your input, guys

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