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What's a reasonable partition size to install Vista 64 bit on along with some games? Any suggestions? I'll probably be reinstalling vista this weekend since I'm changing around my partitions, making them more manageable. So I'm going to have an OS partition and a Storage partition. My hard drive is 640 GB.

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depends some games are 16 gigs some are only 8......i have my partitons setup as media on one, ie music movies pictures torrents stuff like that set for 200 gigs, my system which is my os and programs for 150, and the rest for games
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How many games we talkin'? All depends on that, really.

128GB... off the top of my head, though.
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What's a reasonable partition size to install Vista 64 bit on along with some games? Any suggestions? I'll probably be reinstalling vista this weekend since I'm changing around my partitions, making them more manageable. So I'm going to have an OS partition and a Storage partition. My hard drive is 640 GB.
I would go for atleast 200GB maybe 250GB.With that you should have space to install quite a few games.Rest can be storage.Games require more and more space these days some up to 16GB.So yeah a bit more space for your partition rather than too little
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What's a reasonable partition size to install Vista 64 bit on along with some games? Any suggestions? I'll probably be reinstalling vista this weekend since I'm changing around my partitions, making them more manageable. So I'm going to have an OS partition and a Storage partition. My hard drive is 640 GB.

keep in mind with vista its easy to manage and re size partitions

unlike xp


so if you need more room just hit up disk management
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I'll try 150-200 for the OS partition and the rest for storage. I think that should be enough as my friend just said vista takes up about 65GB of space.

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I'll try 150-200 for the OS partition and the rest for storage. I think that should be enough as my friend just said vista takes up about 65GB of space.
just rem disk management is Ur friend
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Actually that damn thing always gives me trouble with resizing stuff tbh. I kind of prefer GParted but thats just me. Seems cleaner.

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acronis partitions if great you should try that.
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