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Originally posted by Garndell

• 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space
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Originally posted by The Napster
Windows XP needs abou 8Gigs min i think.

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Option A or Option B Big different. hmm.. who to bileave..

If you have LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 128MB of RAM, XP will be really slow for you because it will have to use the paging file a LOT.  Just a warning.

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Originally posted by chris4
Big different. hmm.. who to bileave..

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believe 1.5gb, the offical ammount stated by Microsoft.

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Originally posted by Anubis

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Originally posted by chris4
Big different. hmm.. who to bileave..

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believe 1.5gb, the offical ammount stated by Microsoft.

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Yep, and it runs on a celeron 233 Mhz. Uh-huh. Yeah, sure does.

Never believe the "minimum specs" stated by commercial software vendors. The 8 GB thing is non-sense though

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Originally posted by PlusFan

Never believe the "minimum specs" stated by commercial software vendors.

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On the contrary, I would recommend you do.
There may be able to use loopholes to stay out of trouble and give slightly higher specifications than are needed, but usually, they are about right. For example if you go into a store and buy a game that works on a 800mhz processor, it won't work on a 500mhz processor. Most of the time, you can scape under the minimum specs, but not by a ton, and the software isn't as smooth and good.

Anubis, have you ever tried a game with "minimum 800 mhz" on your 800 mhz PC? I bet it will run uber-slow

Minimums are just that: minimum. If you want a good idea of whether something will run at a decent speed, look at the Recommended specs. This is what you could call the 'true minimum' i.e. running at consistent speed (not necessarily fast: that's what Athlon 64s are for).

installing xp on a 4 gb drive is definaatly not reccommended for anyone trying to do anything. its not so much the os your worrying about, but the software you install. (example, office 2003, 500 mb)

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Originally posted by PlusFan

Yep, and it runs on a celeron 233 Mhz. Uh-huh. Yeah, sure does.

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Notice the word required. Microsoft will tell you specifications where the software will work, but yes it may be extremely slow, but it will work.

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Originally posted by PlusFan

Anubis, have you ever tried a game with "minimum 800 mhz" on your 800 mhz PC? I bet it will run uber-slow

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Not on my PC, but indeed on someone else's. And indeed it can be a little slow, however the fact is that it does work, just little slow in parts like loading and high detailed conditions.

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Originally posted by lizard.boy

installing xp on a 4 gb drive is definaatly not reccommended for anyone trying to do anything. its not so much the os your worrying about, but the software you install. (example, office 2003, 500 mb)

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If he just installs the basics that he needs, like Office and the programs that are just the essentials (AV and Firewall, MSN Messenger and trivial tit-bits like that). He should use only about 3gb. The rest of his stuff (games, music, video, documents ect.) could be installed onto drive I:\ and it would fit.

However your partition sizes are a little weird, imo. They will work but there's no extra safety room. I would have split your 40GB hard drive into a 10gb and a 30gb, just for safety, but it is your choice.

Xp can be installed on a 4gb drive

all you have to do is switch the page file off or onto the other drive