Minimum HD space for XP Pro?

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A friend's got a 4 gb C: drive and a 20 gb slave drive. All her data's
stored on the larger disk. For the usual list of reasons, her C: drive is
almost full, so naturally, the machine's running very slowly. Since it costs
nothing but time, I'm thinking of reformatting the C: drive & reinstalling
XP. Assuming nothing else is installed (untrue, but humor me), how much disk
space is *really* needed for a new installation? The MS site says 1.5
gigabytes, but I don't believe it's really that little.
 
I usually say that 3 GB is about the minimum, considering additional applications and such.
 
I wouldn't. All sorts of programs store things in the \Windows folder or
elsewhere on the drive Windows is installed on. My \Windows folder alone is
almost 3 GB
 
JoeSpareBedroom said:
A friend's got a 4 gb C: drive and a 20 gb slave drive. All her data's
stored on the larger disk. For the usual list of reasons, her C: drive
is almost full, so naturally, the machine's running very slowly. Since
it costs nothing but time, I'm thinking of reformatting the C: drive &
reinstalling XP. Assuming nothing else is installed (untrue, but humor
me), how much disk space is *really* needed for a new installation?
The MS site says 1.5 gigabytes, but I don't believe it's really that
little.
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A clean install of XP Pro SP2 without subsequent updates and any
programs installed is about 2.5GB. So your friend's drive is way too
small. I wouldn't install XP on anything smaller than a 20GB drive or a
10GB partition and that would be pushing it.

Malke
 
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