is a 40 gig partition big enough for Vista?

[MrMatt]

I'm thinking of giving vista a shot. I currently have a 40 gig partition for programs, and 200 gigs for music, videos, etc. would that 40 gig partition be enough for Vista?

 

[VinDSL]

I've been running Vista HP for 2 years, this month. It's fully loaded with every program that I need, some music, a few videos I produced for YouTube, documents that I need for work, a backup or two of my web site(s), etc, etc, etc - and my Vista install is consuming 28 GB on my HD, sooo...

Yes, for me, 40 GB would be plenty!

EDIT: I might also mention...

I have a clean install of Windows 7, e.g. nothing but the core system and some AV software (to get rid of the nag) and it uses 18 GB.

I never ran a clean install of Vista. I bought Vista pre-loaded on a laptop computer, which was loaded with cruft (took me 2 days to get rid of it all), however, reportedly a clean install of Vista takes up 15 GB of space, which is consistent with my W7 experience.

EDIT 2: Here's a shocker for you...

I run Linux Mint 6 x64 on the same machine as Vista HP (28 GB) and Windows 7 (18 GB), and Linux Mint 6 x64 is only using 4.5 GB of space.

I installed VectorLinux 6 Standard Gold on an ancient Fujitsu LifeBook yesterday (10 GB HD, 550 MHz Celeron-M, 64 MB RAM). It works fine, albeit slow, and I still have 6 GB of space left. I'm thinking about dual booting it!

Sooo... if you're hurting for resources, you might give Linux a shot!

 

[growled]

I've ran Vista on 50 GB before and had room to spare so 40 GB should be fine. Just don't put a lot of games on there.

 

[techmanc]

Can anyone answer that question if they don't what you plan to install there? Anyway I have 75gb partition 15gb free with no games-music-pictures just the programs I am using.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

Games will suck that 40GB partition up like it didn't exist. Remember, most games clock in at over 5GB each.

 

[MrMatt]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Games will suck that 40GB partition up like it didn't exist. Remember, most games clock in at over 5GB each.

true, but the only games I have are Civ 4 and BF2. For programs, MS Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and some rosetta stone stuff.

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
Games will suck that 40GB partition up like it didn't exist. Remember, most games clock in at over 5GB each.

but games are easy to throw on another partition.

 

[techmanc]

Well this is what MS recommends so you can use it as a starting guideline....



http://www.microsoft.com/windo...stem-requirements.aspx

 

[takeru]

just did a fresh install of vista ultimate recently. the only programs installed, not including hardware drivers, is pidgin, firefox, peerguardian, and antivir. 43gigs is used up already. looking at my memory usage is even funnier. 8gigs total, 7.8gigs cached. it actually found that much to cache?

 

[VinDSL]

LoL! I'm calling BS on this thread!

Let's see some proof - here's mine:

http://www.VinDSL.com/images/GParted.jpg

 

[KoolDrew]

EDIT - NVM, read the OP incorrectly.

 

[CRXican]

Originally posted by: takeru
just did a fresh install of vista ultimate recently. the only programs installed, not including hardware drivers, is pidgin, firefox, peerguardian, and antivir. 43gigs is used up already. looking at my memory usage is even funnier. 8gigs total, 7.8gigs cached. it actually found that much to cache?

Seriously. Bunch of BS around here lol.

I switched from a 74GB Raptor (running out of space) to a 150GB and did a fresh Vista 64 install. I only installed Firefox and it's right around 40GB already.

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Originally posted by: CRXican

Originally posted by: takeru
just did a fresh install of vista ultimate recently. the only programs installed, not including hardware drivers, is pidgin, firefox, peerguardian, and antivir. 43gigs is used up already. looking at my memory usage is even funnier. 8gigs total, 7.8gigs cached. it actually found that much to cache?

Seriously. Bunch of BS around here lol.

I switched from a 74GB Raptor (running out of space) to a 150GB and did a fresh Vista 64 install. I only installed Firefox and it's right around 40GB already.

Vista's system restore uses 15% hard drive space by default (can only be changed from the command line), so 150GB * 15% = 22.5GB.

 

[imported_pendragon]

I'm 24hrs into Vista Home Premium 64bit for the first time ever.
37gbs already used on a 97gb partition.
No games just Vista and antispyware etc.

 

[GregMal]

I've got a 60 gig partition for the Vista OS and utilities. I place programs and games on other partitions. Vista is using about 50% of the partition......

 

[Chiropteran]

Depends on how much RAM you have. If you have 4GB of RAM, your page file default + hibernation file will eat up some ~10GB of space. Some of that can be reclaimed by disabling hibernation. 40GB should be enough, even then, but it may be cutting it close after some applications.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: GregMal
I've got a 60 gig partition for the Vista OS and utilities. I place programs and games on other partitions. Vista is using about 50% of the partition......

Blah, blah, blah!

You, I believe! :thumbsup:

All the rest, let's see some proof!

 

[DoubleHelix747]

So I just did a first install of Windows 7 on a new build. First OS to be loaded. The partition size is 30GB. After the install, ~23GB of the partition was used. Ran disk clean up utility and that brought used space down to ~15GB. This leaves 15GB for my programs - Norton Internet Security, Office, Acrobat Reader, PDF Writer, VLC, Imgburn, Adobe Premier Elements, some yet to be decided audio listening/authoring/creating programs. Probably few GB in all.

Question: I have 8GB RAM. With swap (~12GB) and hibernation (?GB) file (requirements, is my 30GB partition large enough or should be increasing it. I guess I am wondering if 15GB of used space I am seeing after installing the OS already includes the swap/hibernation files? And how about the system restore file - my system hasn't made one yet (very new system).

 

[pcslookout]

I always turn system restore off because it uses to much hard drive space. That is what True Image is for anyway! System restore is not that good.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Originally posted by: GregMal
I've got a 60 gig partition for the Vista OS and utilities. I place programs and games on other partitions. Vista is using about 50% of the partition......

Blah, blah, blah!

You, I believe! :thumbsup:

All the rest, let's see some proof!

You're showing an astounding lack of understanding about Windows. Vista will use wildly varying amounts of hard disk space depending on the size of your HDD, the amount of memory in your PC, your Hibernation settings, your System Restore settings, the SKU of Vista you're running, the language you're running and several other factors. Just because your install has a small footprint doesn't make it true for everyone.

 

[techmanc]

There's a lot of these threads asking about how much is needed to do xyz that can be simply stated YMMV. (Your Mileage May Vary)

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
You're showing an astounding lack of understanding about Windows...

Back on you - you're displaying an astounding amount of naivete about Windows users!

Everybody thinks they're special. Computerdom is no different - everyone *thinks* they're a power user!

I'm just asking for some PROOF...

How hard is it to take a screeny?

I'll do it again...

http://www.VinDSL.com/images/More_proof.png

How hard was that?!?!?

 

[VinDSL]

LoL!

BTW, that screeny was taken on Linux Mint 6 x64 - my current favorite.

Looks pretty good for 4.34 GB, no?

EDIT: I resized my Linux Mint partition(s) and labeled it.

Been meaning to do that for a while. Thanks, your flame spurred me to action!!

That'll make the screenies look better now...