How much space to partition off?

Okay so I got VMWare and Windows off my Mac and am setting it back up via Boot Camp. But how much space do you think I should partition off? I'm going to be gaming and the one game by itself takes up about 3GB. I have one or two more I'd like to put on and sometimes I like to try new things so I might add something else. I'll also be putting on Norton and Office and maybe Yahoo! Instant Messenger so I can talk to people while I'm on Windows.
If I put 75GB on Windows, that leaves me with 222GB on the Mac side with 186GB of that being free. Is that overkill or should I bump it up to 100GB and leave 197GB for the Mac side with 161GB free?

If you later want to install Windows 7 or something you want to use NTFS; you want room for restore points, temp files and such.
I've reached this point but I'm really confused. Someone told me that I could just fall Boot Camp's instructions and I'd be fine so I started but now I'm lost. The first thing that confused me was what Partition to pick. There was Partition1, Partition2, Undefined Partition, and Partition3 (BOOT CAMP) so I clicked the one with Boot Camp in the name.
Then I was asked about this NTFS business and my boyfriend must not have gone through any of this before because he's not sure what it's for. I asked another person online and he said to do NTFS too but said that he's not sure what's coming up next, if I'll be able to do it on my own if I'm not sure what I'm doing. What's got me lost now is how he said that fat32 is outdated or something and when I looked at the screen, it said fat32. But I guess that means I'm formatting it so that it'll be NTFS afterwards?
I don't know if I should continue or not. If I do, does anyone know how much comes after this point? I've already selected Partition3 (BOOT CAMP) and NTFS...is that it? And then I just insert my Mac OS X disc for driver updates? Or will there be more after this? And if there is, should I just quit? >.<
Right now it's saying to press F if I want to format the partition.

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greetings, yodo
Last edited by yodo (2008-05-30 15:06:49)

yodo wrote:But for what is that reserved space used actually?
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MY LAPTOP : single OS, windows 7 sp1 , ultimate 64 , 2gb ram , 4ghz processor,
kaspersky antivirus full,
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