How Much Hard Drive Space To Run Win XP Smoothely?

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:05 pm

what's the minimum that doesn't sacrafice performance?

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:09 pm

256Mb

just keep the set really simple.

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:14 pm

i'm talking about windows xp sp2, does it really only need 256mb to run?
i mean hard drive space not ram

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:24 pm

that's different. it's not just Live, but for your OS to run smooth you should have like 1Gb of free space open.

then there's all the content, samples etc.

http://www.ableton.com/live

System Requirements

Mac: Any G4 or faster (Intel Mac recommended), 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended), Mac OS X 10.3.9 (10.4 or later recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive

Windows: 1.5 GHz CPU or faster, 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended), Windows XP or Windows Vista, Windows compatible sound card (ASIO driver support recommended), QuickTime 6.5 or higher, DVD-ROM drive

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:31 pm

I'm not actualy just talking about Live, I'm reformatting my drive and trying to get some extra space and I was wondering how small of an amount I could get away with on my os drive, i've got a 700gig drive but I need to conserve as much space as possible so i want to make the os partition as small as possible with out sacrificing performance

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:33 pm

EgAD wrote:make the os partition as small as possible with out sacrificing performance

you cannot have those two things.

drives are cheap, go get a new one. use one for data, one for OS, it makes life a lot easier in the long run.

STOP CHANGING THE QUESTION!!

bosonHavoc · Post by **bosonHavoc** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:37 pm

on my pc i usually do about a 30 gig partition for my system drive.
thats more then enough space for the os and apps

i also put my ableton library and other sample libraries on a a different drive.

EgAD · Post by **EgAD** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 9:52 pm

i hardly have any apps so 20gigs should do