am running windows 7 primarily for two games. running out of space on the partition. i don't know enough about windows to know what can be deleted. caches? i have no files other than the game files. a few email messages, but they can't amount to much. some direction would be appreciated.
Sorry. Missed exactly what you were asking there.
You are complicating it
Do not use disk utility under any scenario
Camp tune has worked great for lots but search here and on web, there are cases where it doesn't and no way to predict if it will go wonky
If you want as close to a guarantee that nothing goes wrong, redo windows with bca
ok, i remember the issue. i am configured in FAT32 which is why i have a 32G partition.
if i go above 32G, i need to be configured in NTFS, correct. do i need to make that change in windows prior to camptune or does camptune handle this?
I would just redo in bca, I have a feeling you have a non standard prior windows install so just asking for camp tune issues
Also camp tune isn't free
perfectly legit standard install.
Forrest Jerome1 wrote:
perfectly legit standard install.
But ancient, no current version of Windows runs on FAT32 and 35GB is much too small. Camp Tune won't work with your setup so you'll be doing it the hard way.
New to bootcamp and have been out of the Winx world for 15 years or so. I was surprised (badly) at how much space Winx is taking up. Boot camp suggested a 20 GB partition when I first installed Win7 pro and that was eaten up almost immediately. Even though the actual Win system folder was small, on the order of 11 GB, and I'd only installed one 350 MB program, suddenly I was out of space. I've bumped up to 30 GB and still run out of space.
I understand that many folks recommend 40 - 60 GB partitions, but I don't have a lot of space on my current HD, so that's why I'm stingy.
But the real bottom line is that I'm just amazed at what a resource hog Win7 is.
16 GB ram, and it wants 25 GB just for a swap file.
I've limited the size of my max page file, turned off Recovery, and done a disk clean up. Sometimes I have 11 GB free, sometimes 35 MB. The swings are pretty erratic. I may have to just bite the bullet and just buy a 1 TB HD, but I won't go there smiling.
30G is far too small, 60 is a mean minimum, 100 is sensible.
Would you buy a 30GB drive for Windows?
I'd never buy such a small drive if Windows was my primary operating system. However, since I'm only thinking of running a single program in the Windows environment here, my expectations for space requirements were substantially smaller.
Any idea why the available free space vacillates so wildly?
tomasaur wrote:
I'd never buy such a small drive if Windows was my primary operating system. However, since I'm only thinking of running a single program in the Windows environment here, my expectations for space requirements were substantially smaller.
Windows space requirements don't vary much in my experience, 7 seems to be happiest with 50 to 60GB, 8 seems to be OK with less, 40GB or so. This is with no applications installed and 8GB of Ram (all services at defaults)
Killing hibernation and swap files will reduce that but I don't do that, and I run in a VM.
An FYI for future issues. Get WinDirStat in order to keep abreast of Windows file hogs.
Thanks for the advice guys. Just ordered a 1 TB HD from Newegg so I can give Win the space it wants without begrudging it valuable photo and music space.
WinDirStat looks like a good resource.
Tom
"But ancient, no current version of Windows runs on FAT32 and 35GB is much too small. Camp Tune won't work with your setup so you'll be doing it the hard way.
Windows 7
Going to recheck the FAT32 thing.
i am wrong. it is NTFS. 😮
Hi everybody... I've been trying to solve this mistery for the past 2 years and "Nada". I checked the entire partition folder by folder and the conclusion was that the Windows folder behaves eratically under bootcamp and it expands on the entire partition. The same win 7 genuine kit works flawless on a pc machine or on the virtual machine from mac os x (paralells for example). SO my advice... Don't do bootcamp unless you have an incredible large SSD. I personally used a 250 gb ssd and a 750 gb sata hdd as a storage drive in my MBP. My bootcamp partition was 40gb on the ssd drive. It's not worth to move it on the second drive because you will loose too much speed. Just use a virtual machine..
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