Vista Requirements

[Tuffrabbit]

After checking on the MS website for Vista Premium requirements, there wasn't any mention of alloted hard drive space needed for just the operating system, rumors have been as high as 8.5 GB ! (Notice however there is a need for 15 GB of free space (so how much of this is just for the OS ?)
Any info or speculation on this ?






The following is MS current recomendations thus far...



A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least:

1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor1.
1 GB of system memory.
Support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)2, Pixel Shader 2.0 and 32 bits per pixel.
40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
DVD-ROM Drive3.
Audio output capability.
Internet access capability.

 

[SynthDude2001]

That's about right, I've been running Vista as my main OS for nearly two months now and a fresh install does take up about 10GB or so.

 

[Tuffrabbit]

Ok thanks, I'll make sure to partition off at least 20 GB with new install to leave room for office applications...
🙂

 

[XZeroII]

Originally posted by: Tuffrabbit
Ok thanks, I'll make sure to partition off at least 20 GB with new install to leave room for office applications...
🙂

20gb?

I don't even install XP on less than 30gb.

 

[Sniper82]

Originally posted by: XZeroII

Originally posted by: Tuffrabbit
Ok thanks, I'll make sure to partition off at least 20 GB with new install to leave room for office applications...
🙂

20gb?

I don't even install XP on less than 30gb.

maybe he plans on installing most apps on other partions?

 

[Tuffrabbit]

Sniper82; maybe he plans on installing most apps on other partions?


Yes, that is correct. Drive D: will be used for the operating system and Windows Office Pro only... One of my computers is configured like this already with XP Pro on D: with only 7.5 GB and works great ! However Vista Premium oblviously is going to require more space, hence the 20GB target size...

 

[Jaxidian]

I would suggest having 10GB of free space after you have Vista and Office installed. I'd feel uncomfortable with less than that. I know Vista does a whole lot more for you behind the scenes than what XP did and until I'm more familiar with everything it needs, what its requirements are, and more importantly what its tendancies are, I'd plan it this way.

This is entirely just my opinion though and not based on hard facts (though I have been running Vista exclusively as my dev environment at work for the past 1+ months).