How much space should I dedicate to Windows XP?

I have Macbook and currently dual-booting Mac OS and Ubuntu. I want to add windows to this as well. How much space should I dedicate to it.





If I want bare XP Sp2, Microsoft office 2007 Ultimate and Visual Studio Express 2005 C++, C#. Plus bits and pieces?

How much space should I dedicate to Windows XP?
from my personal experience, twenty gigs is plenty, you will get all your updates and have plenty of room for you programs as well,


i personally use minimum of 50 gigs partition for windows xp.


i have big hard drives, i do this on all of my pcs, and then use bigger partitions for different files, i have one for music only . one for videos only and one for pictures and i have changed the drive letters to correspond ie drive V for video , drive M for music, and drive P for pictures , and drive D for documents





but this is the way i do it, you do not have to follow my way, but just use about 20 gigs for xp





this is the link to a group i use you are welcome to join





http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/arc_pc_...
Reply:why bother, youre already using linux, get a different release. i use linspire xp2007, and run windows applications in a VM shell.
Reply:I'm not sure about how much space Visual Studio will take, but I think about 10 Gb will do fine. Add another Gb for each 512 Mb of RAM you have in your computer, so you'll have room for the swapfile.
Reply:10gb
Reply:seven is plenty
Reply:If you can manage 10 GB would be sufficient but i would like to know why you want 3 OS on a single machine is it really necessary ?