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    Vista Partition size

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by dpilot83, Feb 2, 2008.

  1. dpilot83

    dpilot83 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm planning on doing a clean install of Vista soon. I want it to be on it's own partition and use the smallest amount of hard drive I can get away with and still have room to grow. As an example I felt pretty comfortable with 15 GB for a complete install of Windows XP and all the programs I wanted to use plus room to grow. Anyone have recommendations for what size of a partition I would need for similar usage with Vista? Thanks
     
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  2. pixelot

    pixelot Notebook Acolyte

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    It seems to me that your formula would be:

    15Gb + the difference in size between Vista and XP

    Of course, you must take into account the large amount of space Vista takes for System Restore points and Shadow Copies.

    To limit this, follow this guide.
     
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  3. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    I recommend 25 GB mate.

    Here's what I have:

    - Vista Business Edition + All Windows Updates done
    - A Squared
    - NOD32 v3
    - Office 2007 + Office 2007 SP1
    - PowerDVD
    - Nero 7 Ultra Edition
    - CloneCD
    - Easy CD-DA Extractor
    - K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
    - Foxit Reader
    - Free Download Manager
    - Tag&Rename
    - SONY Laptop Utilities
    - Hibernation Enabled
    - System Restore Disabled
    - Virtual Memory set to C:\

    Disk Capacity = 25 GB
    Free Disk Space = 9.77 GB
     
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