Partition Size for Boot Camp?

RedShell

Hey, I have a Mac Book Pro that I'm going to partition and put XP on for the purpose of playing the Orange Box. I'm looking for the smallest reasonable partition size possible, and I'm willing to only leave on game on the system at a time.

Is 10G enough? Can I go smaller? Space is an issue.

Thanks in advance.

mastman

I have a 8G partition for XP, and I think after install(and updates) i have about 3 left

wallabeeX

I have a 30GB XP boot partition for the sole purpose of playing Orange Box. What really makes the difference here is whether you're intending on having all of the Orange Box installed so you can play any of it at any time, or if you're just looking to play TF2 or HL2:EP2 alone. Right now I have both of those downloaded and installed, no Portal, and the Steam directory takes up ~9GB.

I'd assume if you went with just one at a time, you could conceivably get away with 10GB, but you probably want to go with more.

corcorigan

Aren't you going to run into issues if you run out of hard drive space for page files etc?

vonPoonBurGer

corcorigan wrote: »

Aren't you going to run into issues if you run out of hard drive space for page files etc?

There is usually only one page file, and you can set it to a fixed size to remove the possibility that Windows eats up the last of your space while extending it.

tsmvengy

Orange Box full install is like 15GB I think - so you'll probably need 20-25GB for XP and the Orange Box.

contraband

I currently have a 40GB partition, I think it's overkill. For your situation, I would recommend 25GB.

Dark Moon

Yeah, don't leave too much room for Boot Camp. Aside from playing Orange Box, I doubt you'll ever go into your XP partition. Orange Box install + XP install + a few gigs for miscellaneous and page file.