vista beta question

monkeysims said:
how much HDD space does the vista beta take up?
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Since you are not gonna get rid of XP and it's gonna install as a second Operating System it'll take at least 4GB's.
 
monkeysims, if you had read anything about Vista in any of the topics about Vista in this forum, you would have known that it will require 15GB of free space.
 
WTF 15GB???. I do hope they include Office, the complete macromedia package and a lot of other crap i can get rid off. I mean 15GB that's a quarter of my boot partition. I wasn't planning to get vista right away anyway but i do hope you can remove a lot of it. It's just my operating system i dunno about you guys but if i can't get the size of vista under 6GB i'm seriously considering switching to a linux distro.
 
Rambo said:
monkeysims, if you had read anything about Vista in any of the topics about Vista in this forum, you would have known that it will require 15GB of free space.
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It doesnt take up that much space, the installation took up about 8GB of my hard drive when i tested it.
 
ah then they probably also include the page file (i think about 2gb). But still... why do you need 15gb free space to be a premium ready pc???
 
Vipernitrox said:
ah then they probably also include the page file (i think about 2gb). But still... why do you need 15gb free space to be a premium ready pc???
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Everything today takes up lots of space, the new games that are out take up around 3-6GB each! And with hard drive prices extremely cheap, there really isnt a reason why you cant afford at least a 120GB drive.
 
yep but i've got an 80gb laptop. With a 60gb partition for my os. then my os only will take up about 10gb :eek:. That's just way to much for me. I'm gonna buy me a new laptop somewhere in the next year. With at least 2 hd's :cool:. I'm not gonna install vista till i've got that. Probably won't be able to get a final version of vista earlier anyway.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
It doesnt take up that much space, the installation took up about 8GB of my hard drive when i tested it.
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That is about what it is on mine, too. 15GB is if you were to be installing lots of programs and such.
 
Rambo said:
monkeysims, if you had read anything about Vista in any of the topics about Vista in this forum, you would have known that it will require 15GB of free space.
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I knew the whole 15GB thing on the Microsoft website, but I didn't know if that was for the full or beta version of Vista.
 
I think that most of the requirements are just crap to get the hardware companies more business i got vista with areo and all the other premium stuff to run on a laptop with 384mb of ram and a 60gb hd 1.8ghz proc..:D
 
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