On Nov 20, 2007 9:19 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr> wrote: > > I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk > about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create > (at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and > a larger one for data. I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction of 10G than 5. I installed WinXP on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to keep it working. It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate it).