Windows vista: How much Hard Disk space? What kind?

[TheNubCaik]

177GB Free out of 220GB.

Is that good?

I needa know because I love the game I play, MicroVolts... Q_Q

[jamesrschultz]

@TheNubCaik Yeah that's excellent!

[Musa1927]

@jamesrschultz thanks

[Musa1927]

i have 40gb hard disk is it enough??

[jamesrschultz]

@Musa1927 If you want tons of media and apps, probably not.  But just for the OS and stuff online, that'll do.

[HaydenFSX]

i have 370 GB of space

120 gb free

[alofano]

What size of hard disk would you recommend for window XP ? Thanks.

[jamesrschultz]

About 5GB less than Vista is a good rule. For basic user: 30GB or so. For media user: 160GB of more.

[webpsiho]

Never use C (or default Partition for data, only OS), if u get bad virus (or HDD crash) .. bye bye data.

Use small 80Gb for OS and another 500 Gb separate for data, or just 1 big and partition it.

[jamesrschultz]

I've actually never had any problems with loosing data. I have a 4GB SD card I use for personal documents, so that works well if I have to reinstall Windows so I dont have to back up a lot of data.

[webpsiho]

It happends, everything mechanichal dies in time, or due a crash, or other problems. PC is not a museum piece, is a mechanical / electronical device used day by day. I use partitions since MS invented fdisk command and I recomand to all people who I know to use a partition, and in last years happend to destroy cylindres or even the little engine from a HDD that is spinning the disks. It happends

[webpsiho]

In my opinion and personal use - safety first. Using a second partition or a separate HDD for data made me feel sefe. I`m working on "large data using" domain,I`m using 1.2 Tb of data, and loosing something is the end for me.

If my C crash, will not boot, or get a nasty virus behind the process and things, eating my .exe files or whatever ... desinfectionwill never work with worms "eating" .exe files, so I prefer spending 30 more minutes to format and reinstall Win OS without loosing any data.

[jamesrschultz]

Dude, just be careful what you do physically with it and virtually and you, like me, should not have any problems. :)

[webpsiho]

Anyway, PC is what the name say: Personal Computer. Everyone is using it however they want.

CHeers

[webpsiho]

PS: sorry for my bad english

[jamesrschultz]

It's cool

[jamesrschultz]

Haha, it's a good background! 120GB is great for me though. I only have 69GB free now. Haha, I put W2K in a VM. I got board.

[vangstaz]

WOW... I had that background before! Reminds me of back then! BTW, I have a 120GB hard drive for my Vista PC, it's great though because I know how to save space! =D

[jamesrschultz]

Wow, that's huge! My desktop has 160GB with 120GB free and that's my familys' media computer!

[burmuda234]

My gaming PC has 500GB due to I have alot of big games on there.