How much HD space is required for Win 7 Beta?

[arachnyd]

It says 15 GB on the beta install instructions, but I only have a 8GB primary drive, 64 GB secondary (not fast enough for an OS other than Linux)

From reading around I've heard people have said it's about half the size of Vista, but vista is 15GB too on paper. Whats the actual install size peopler are seeing?

[XP_NO]

My Windows directory is about 7,8Gb at the moment so 8Gb as primary drive would be too small.

But what you probably can do is using vlite and remove for example the media center and other stuff you do not need to test/ run the normal things of Windows 7.

My complete C:\ , installation of Windows 7, office, opera, avg, gimp, ccleaner, wsftp, foxit, java, orov and infrarecorder is 8,8Gb at the moment with an one user setup.

Edited February 15, 2009 by XP_NO

[spacesurfer]

my vLited Win 7 takes up about < 3 gigs after install. then after installing office 2007 and a few apps here and there, i'm down to 1.3 gb free of 6.6 gb total.

The install footprint is way better than vista. And it's snappier than Vista.

[Access Denied]

I've got about 17GB of "data" on here to add to the size of it. Im using 29GB right now, so 12 is win7 installed with a handfull of apps. I would not install it on anything less than 40GB(any os for that matter).

[911]

When I installed windows 7 and nothing else it was just over 10GB and using 445mb or ram

[arachnyd]

my vLited Win 7 takes up about < 3 gigs after install. then after installing office 2007 and a few apps here and there, i'm down to 1.3 gb free of 6.6 gb total.

The install footprint is way better than vista. And it's snappier than Vista.

Good to know. I vlited a version but I think I may have removed too much. I found a link for ASUS EEEpc owners about getting it down to the 3 gig range, but I am trying to maintain tablet functionality. You don't happen to have it listed anywhere what you used for your vlite settings did you? Don't go out of your way to write it, just wanted to see if you happened to go off of someone else, post it up, or just go on the fly.

I went ahead and got a faster secondary drive, so now I'm looking at 32GB slow storage, 16GB, but only at 35 MB/S, and then 8GB at 45MB/S. I can probably unload Win7 on the 16G if need be, but I'll try to 8G since you were successful with it, and then I may throw office and other software on the 16G. Either way, the 16G should be about the speed of my original 4200 rpm drive (a bit faster), so certainly decent performance, but the 8GB will be faster than a typical 7200 seen in mobile computing, and the vlited size of a more efficient OS should help me see considerably speed improvements. ( I know there are much faster HDs - but mind you the x41 came with a 4200rpm 1.8" with a 29.7 MB/S transfer rate and a 15ms seek time - The x41 will still be a dog, but I'm just looking for a solid mobile road warrier that can supplement my other computers. Had a EEEPC but it didn't quite fit the bill, so I'm essentially using the X41 as a UMPC with tablet function)

Thanks for the help!

[cluberti]

Minimum requirements for Win7 as from Microsoft are 16GB of HDD space for x64, assume similar (slightly less) for x86, but I'd doubt not too much less.

As others have mentioned, anything less than 40GB is probably going to be incredibly tight.

[redxii]

Remember, the more hotfixes and programs you install afterwards as the install ages the WinSxS folder will be relentlessly increasing in size... what was HP thinking 120GB would be enough for Vista...

I installed some 55MB .Net update and somehow that translated into ~800MB less free space. Windows may not be forgiving to take into account for that the system files are hardlinked from WinSxS and go by that false figure to alert you're out of disk space when you probably actually have 10 of GBs left.

Edited February 22, 2009 by redxii

[spacesurfer]

Good to know. I vlited a version but I think I may have removed too much. I found a link for ASUS EEEpc owners about getting it down to the 3 gig range, but I am trying to maintain tablet functionality. You don't happen to have it listed anywhere what you used for your vlite settings did you? Don't go out of your way to write it, just wanted to see if you happened to go off of someone else, post it up, or just go on the fly.

Go over to vLite section. they have a thread about what you can and cannot remove with vLite.

My VHD is 6.6 gig but it's only for testing purposes. I'm not planning to install much. I have office 2007, acrobat reader, windows live mail, virtual pc, comodo firewall, avast antivirus, roboform, firefox, realvnc, and coreavc codec installed. I end up with 1.3 gb free space.

Also my pagefile is on a separate drive. Windows 7 set my non-VHD partition as the pagefile partition by default.

My other essential apps are portable - winrar, imgburn, infrarecorder, ultraiso and reside on a separate partition.

Anyway, when I do move on to Windows 7 when it's released, I'd probably give it 20 gb partition, although I know more space recommended.