Just Installed Windows 7

[joey-elijah]

i've seen up to 8.5gbs

@ OP : 11gbs? come on, you must have put something yourself there

by the way Giant Speck, what you said about D: was quite strange, why would it mean that it was an upgrade if Another partition has some files in it? :O

I use x64 windows 7 and a fresh install took up around 7.5GB. Microsoft warn it can take up to 15GB. Once you start installing your graphics drivers, windows updates etc it soon jumps. This is all before you install any applications.

[fela]

How the hell could a vanilla operating system take up 11GB worth of harddisk space...it's beyond belief. I installed Linux in 50MB once But believe me it can get alot smaller than that.

[scorp123]

How the hell could a vanilla operating system take up 11GB worth of harddisk space...it's beyond belief.

Yes, it's quite surprising, to say the least

I installed Linux in 50MB once But believe me it can get alot smaller than that.

I remember booting a complete Linux installation (with a Linux 2.2 kernel) from a 1.44 MB floppy disk. Including X11 GUI. Now, that was a small OS.

But that was ages ago.

[Npl]

Windows 7 takes ~5GB. Then you get 2 big additional files, one is the swapfile (pagefile.sys) and the other for hybernation (hyberfile.sys). So its not too bad, considering it has tons of drivers included aswell.

It does run on 512MB, and the plain OS run rather well. Surely theres not much left and running some Apps will soon exhaust the free Memory.

[Giant Speck]

by the way Giant Speck, what you said about D: was quite strange, why would it mean that it was an upgrade if Another partition has some files in it? :O

Because it could mean that the files from the previous install of Windows are stored in D:. If he just installed Windows 7, then there wouldn't be any files there at all.

[MellonCollie]

Windows 7 takes ~5GB. Then you get 2 big additional files, one is the swapfile (pagefile.sys) and the other for hybernation (hyberfile.sys). So its not too bad, considering it has tons of drivers included aswell.

Yeah they take up a bit of space. The pagefile usually matches the amount of RAM you have installed.

If he just installed Windows 7, then there wouldn't be any files there at all.

I'm guessing that his/her personal files are on D.

[JDShu]

Heh... am I the only one who thought/thinks it's a comment on the 666?

I think you're right

[chriskin]

Because it could mean that the files from the previous install of Windows are stored in D:. If he just installed Windows 7, then there wouldn't be any files there at all.

what about music, videos, personal files, etc?
i keep them on an ntfs, i just installed windows 7 some days ago
i got a D: full of files, and windows 7 was as fresh as it can get

[sudoer541]

did you guys buy windows 7, or you are evaluating the RTM release?

[chriskin]

did you guys buy windows 7, or you are evaluating the RTM release?

i got a free one through the msdnaa project