Space occupied by Vista Ultimate edition???

Hi,

I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition on my computer just a day
before. I partitioned my harddisk to NTFS with 9.7/9.8GB space.

Now, the issue is that it has occupied almost 8.0GB of space on my harddisk,
when I have not installed any other program on top of it.Is it normal?

B'coz what I noticed is that when my same partion was having a disk space of
7.8GB it was installing but I just wanted to expand the space on this
partition to 9.8GB.


Please suggest.

Thanks.

--
Regards,
Nick

"Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:921DC14B-3C33-4C24-AEA9-6A592297BC51@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition on my computer just a day
> before. I partitioned my harddisk to NTFS with 9.7/9.8GB space.
>
> Now, the issue is that it has occupied almost 8.0GB of space on my
> harddisk,
> when I have not installed any other program on top of it.Is it normal?
>
> B'coz what I noticed is that when my same partion was having a disk space
> of
> 7.8GB it was installing but I just wanted to expand the space on this
> partition to 9.8GB.
>
>
> Please suggest.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nick


You're going to need a lot more space than that. I'm surprised it even
installed on a ~10 Gig partition.
Regardless, you'll need more space for the restore points it will want to
make before installing updates.
I'd regard 40 Gig a practical minimum partition size for Vista.

Thanx buddy!

But, still I am wondering that how much space it requires when installed a
fresh copy.

--
Regards,
Nick


"PvdG42" wrote:

> "Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:921DC14B-3C33-4C24-AEA9-6A592297BC51@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition on my computer just a day
> > before. I partitioned my harddisk to NTFS with 9.7/9.8GB space.
> >
> > Now, the issue is that it has occupied almost 8.0GB of space on my
> > harddisk,
> > when I have not installed any other program on top of it.Is it normal?
> >
> > B'coz what I noticed is that when my same partion was having a disk space
> > of
> > 7.8GB it was installing but I just wanted to expand the space on this
> > partition to 9.8GB.
> >
> >
> > Please suggest.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Nick
>
>
> You're going to need a lot more space than that. I'm surprised it even
> installed on a ~10 Gig partition.
> Regardless, you'll need more space for the restore points it will want to
> make before installing updates.
> I'd regard 40 Gig a practical minimum partition size for Vista.
>
>

15GB
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr...quirements.mspx


"Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECD8F2B6-07AE-4091-96FB-6F1E1A83A4D3@microsoft.com...
> Thanx buddy!
>
> But, still I am wondering that how much space it requires when installed a
> fresh copy.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Nick
>
>
> "PvdG42" wrote:
>
>> "Nick" <Nick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:921DC14B-3C33-4C24-AEA9-6A592297BC51@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have installed Windows Vista Ultimate edition on my computer just a
>> > day
>> > before. I partitioned my harddisk to NTFS with 9.7/9.8GB space.
>> >
>> > Now, the issue is that it has occupied almost 8.0GB of space on my
>> > harddisk,
>> > when I have not installed any other program on top of it.Is it normal?
>> >
>> > B'coz what I noticed is that when my same partion was having a disk
>> > space
>> > of
>> > 7.8GB it was installing but I just wanted to expand the space on this
>> > partition to 9.8GB.
>> >
>> >
>> > Please suggest.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Regards,
>> > Nick
>>
>>
>> You're going to need a lot more space than that. I'm surprised it even
>> installed on a ~10 Gig partition.
>> Regardless, you'll need more space for the restore points it will want to
>> make before installing updates.
>> I'd regard 40 Gig a practical minimum partition size for Vista.
>>
>>