khakisheep
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Hi all,
I've been working on a project for a while now where I'm setting up many partitions all with XP installed on them. Please check out my original thread for info on what I'm up against.
My Project
I'm at a point now where I'm at drive letter Z and about to push beyond those boundaries and see what happens. But first I have some housekeeping to attend to on my test HDD here. I have lots of extra space on my previous installs, according to how large drivers were for the model I was working with. In attempts to optimize this space, I'm using Partition Magic 8.0 and am going to shrink all previous partitions and gain some extra space on my drive. My only question I'm hoping someone might be able to give me a heads up on is whats the minimum I should shrink these without causing me grief later. Partition Magic has a minimum that it will shrink each partition to. I'm sure this is according to some grand idea of Windows wanting at least some free space left for it to spawn and do happy blue screen things. So question, am I at risk going too low? Is there a quotable set amount XP says it needs somewhere free? Also if anyone's done anywhere near this much partition re-sizing before feel free to offer up some tokens of wisdom. I'm a bit afraid of each of these re-sizes having to move the following 22 partitions up in their respective pecking orders. Looking back re-sizing each install once it was complete was probably my best bet. But horror stories and comments on re-sizing are appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ksheep
I've been working on a project for a while now where I'm setting up many partitions all with XP installed on them. Please check out my original thread for info on what I'm up against.
My Project
I'm at a point now where I'm at drive letter Z and about to push beyond those boundaries and see what happens. But first I have some housekeeping to attend to on my test HDD here. I have lots of extra space on my previous installs, according to how large drivers were for the model I was working with. In attempts to optimize this space, I'm using Partition Magic 8.0 and am going to shrink all previous partitions and gain some extra space on my drive. My only question I'm hoping someone might be able to give me a heads up on is whats the minimum I should shrink these without causing me grief later. Partition Magic has a minimum that it will shrink each partition to. I'm sure this is according to some grand idea of Windows wanting at least some free space left for it to spawn and do happy blue screen things. So question, am I at risk going too low? Is there a quotable set amount XP says it needs somewhere free? Also if anyone's done anywhere near this much partition re-sizing before feel free to offer up some tokens of wisdom. I'm a bit afraid of each of these re-sizes having to move the following 22 partitions up in their respective pecking orders. Looking back re-sizing each install once it was complete was probably my best bet. But horror stories and comments on re-sizing are appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Ksheep