> > > when SSD drives get cheaper, I'll get a 60GB one for my main partition. more than > > > that is just a waste as SSD drives are way too expensive. > > > > I don't get this. At most, I partition 30gb for System - though with TinyXP, and > > given I don't have assloads of large apps, I only do 10gb and have a few left after > > all's said an done. > > I always have a boot partition 100 to 150 GB in size. Yes, it seems like a lot, but > between your software (which may vary in size depending on what you do), OS updates, > your own downloads, system restore, internet cache, the temp folder used by several > programs, and the pagefile... better safe than sorry. > > That is not to say your 30 GB aren't enough. Some of us just need more.
My /Windows is ~23 GB. That's 64-bit Windows 7 SP3 with the SP3 backup files removed. For Windows 7 30 GB is definitely not enough. How big is the Windows folder on a fully updated Windows XP?