20gb Drive only has 5.90gb space after clean vista install Tigga 6/20/2007 8:40:13 PM After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got any ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've seen, vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes up that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000 :(

Re: 20gb Drive only has 5.90gb space after clean vista install "...winston" <merlin[ at ]druid9#.com> 6/20/2007 9:09:41 PM Vista version ?? Vista applications enabled ? ..winston "Tigga" <Tigga[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8F791462-D73A-414E-82C6-EA046150139F[ at ]microsoft.com... : After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only : showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got any : ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or : programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've seen, : vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes up : that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000 :(

Re: 20gb Drive only has 5.90gb space after clean vista install "Rick Rogers" <rick[ at ]mvps.org> 6/21/2007 10:46:50 AM Hi, That's pretty much average for a Vista install, especially when you factor in space requirements for System Restore, paging, and hibernation. It's designed for modern systems, and these typically come with hard drives >100GB so space would not be an issue. 20GB is ok if it's a system partition only, but as you've seen you will quickly run out of space if it's the only volume. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Tigga" <Tigga[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8F791462-D73A-414E-82C6-EA046150139F[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only > showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got > any > ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or > programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've > seen, > vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes > up > that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000 :(

Re: 20gb Drive only has 5.90gb space after clean vista install Tigga 6/21/2007 5:16:01 PM thanks, looks like i'll have to save up a bit to get a bigger drive, Vista 6.0 btw "Rick Rogers" wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > That's pretty much average for a Vista install, especially when you factor > in space requirements for System Restore, paging, and hibernation. It's > designed for modern systems, and these typically come with hard drives > >100GB so space would not be an issue. 20GB is ok if it's a system partition > only, but as you've seen you will quickly run out of space if it's the only > volume. > > -- > Best of Luck, > > Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP > http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > Windows help - www.rickrogers.org > My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com > > "Tigga" <Tigga[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8F791462-D73A-414E-82C6-EA046150139F[ at ]microsoft.com... > > After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only > > showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got > > any > > ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or > > programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've > > seen, > > vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes > > up > > that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000 :( > >