I couldn’t diagree more on the recommended partition sizes for desktop computers. If you setup a 2GB primary partition for your system files there are major shortcomings that scheme!
1). Win2K Pro takes approximately 1GB of disk space already, more if you follow the paging file size recomendation. WinXP Pro uses approximately 1.4GB of disk space!
2). When you install software it installs on the primary partition by default. Even if you point to a different partition many files are still installed on C: which eat up your primary partition space. Compound that when you have many programs to install.
3). WinXP Pro, by default enables Hibernation which creates a hiberfil.sys file equual to the amount of physical memory. The file is located on the root of C:.
My experience is NOT to have a primary partition < 4GB. Also, creating multiple partitions usually mean one of more partitions do not get used which effectively means you end up with less disk space to use! I partition desktop computer drives as one large partition and by using the computer (or User) group policy, lock specific users out of the system folder and system settings. The one large partition eliminates disk space headaches and eventually having to span partitions using Disk Administrator because the disk partitions were too small!
