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how much space does Vista really take/need

QueBert

QueBert

Lifer
I know the installer says 15 gigs, people have mentioned about 11'ish. I don't have a lot of space, but as far as apps and stuff go everything I need is already on my system. I basically have about 18-20 gigs free, and I really deleted the bulk of what I could, or backed crap up to DVD. I know how big my XP is when I do an install, but it ends up growing. I'm guessing is Vista needs 15 gigs total, and my XP is around 5-6 I should have about 10 gigs left afterwards.

What's a comfortable amount of space to run Vista on? I'll probably get another HD shortly down the road, but for now I'm sitting with a copy of Vista Ultimate and not sure if I should bother with it now or wait till the new HD's installed.

 
When I tested Vista back in the day, I usually gave it 20-30GB and found that sufficient even without disabling anything, although you can get by with 15GB if you are careful with the OS. Still, for the best experience I would give it more room to grow, so it might be worthwhile to test it now with 15GB or so and use it more seriously once you get the new HDD.
 
I could squeeze 20 gigs out of my C partition but no sense in pushing it that close I suppose, besides my wireless adapter isn't Vista ready so maybe I'll just wait until I get the new HD + the wireless card and not worry. very tempting to try with 20 gigs though! 🙂
 
I might look into that, I loved 98lite, but before I jumped on this I'd want to find out exactly what's missing. I don't have a lot of hands on with Vista, but I don't want to save a bit of disk space and loose features that might be useless, but are kind of cool. I'm definitely going to Google Vista Ultimate Lite thanks man
 
30 GB minimum for Windows Vista partition with applications. If you use a whole lot of applications then 35 to 40 GB minimum partition on your new Western Digital Raptor 150 GB hard drive. Remember there will soon be a huge SP1, 2, 3 ...

Also remember that depending on how much ram you have will depend how big your paging file is.

My page file use to be only 4 GB but not its 8 GB because I upgraded from 2 GB of ram to 4 GB of ram. THe page file can get quite large the higher you upgrade your total ram amount. So lets say you upgrade your ram to 8 or even 16 GB your page file alone would be 16 to 32 GB :Q
 
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