Size of Vista Home Premium

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Bare minimum is 15 GBs, the actual OS uses around 10 to 11 GBs.

 

[Guest]

What is the size of Vista Home Premium? I want to setup a partition on my
hard drive on which to install vista home premium. How much space should I
allocate?
Thanks.
RickC

 

[John Waller]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequirements.mspx

"40 GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space"

 

[Guest]

Thanks Andre. I appreciate the info.
RickC

Bare minimum is 15 GBs, the actual OS uses around 10 to 11 GBs.
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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

You are welcome Leoram.

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Rick.

As the others said, 15 GB is plenty to install Vista. But it will grow on
you. And that is not just a figure of speech!

As soon as you start using Vista, it will probably create a file to store
the contents of RAM for hibernation; this will be hiberfil.sys and it will
be just a few bytes larger than your installed RAM (2,147,004,416 bytes in
my 2 GB system); this file must be in C:\ and can't be moved, although you
can eliminate it entirely by disabling hibernation. Vista will also create
the paging file in C:\ by default; this will be larger than your RAM
(2,460,758,016 in my system). This pagefile.sys can be moved, but most
users never move it. These two files, totaling nearly 5 GB in my system,
are Hidden, System files that do not show up at all in Windows Explorer
unless I change default settings to show them. Most users never know they
are there.

Unless you change the defaults, all your applications will be installed into
C:\Program Files, which will use more space on C:. And all your emails and
newsgroup posts will go into
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Mail\WindowsMail.MSMessageStore, which will grow every time you use Windows
Mail. And, your Documents, Pictures and other such folders will grow, too,
and they are all on C: by default.

We could go on, but I think you get the point. Even though I've been
moderately aggressive about keeping things out of C:, I now have just 23 GB
free on my 60 GB Drive C:. (Fortunately, I do have plenty of free space on
other volumes.)

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Iain]

Hi, Rick.

As the others said, 15 GB is plenty to install Vista. But it will grow
on you. And that is not just a figure of speech!

As soon as you start using Vista, it will probably create a file to
store the contents of RAM for hibernation; this will be hiberfil.sys and
it will be just a few bytes larger than your installed RAM
(2,147,004,416 bytes in my 2 GB system); this file must be in C:\ and
can't be moved, although you can eliminate it entirely by disabling
hibernation. Vista will also create the paging file in C:\ by default;
this will be larger than your RAM (2,460,758,016 in my system). This
pagefile.sys can be moved, but most users never move it. These two
files, totaling nearly 5 GB in my system, are Hidden, System files that
do not show up at all in Windows Explorer unless I change default
settings to show them. Most users never know they are there.

Unless you change the defaults, all your applications will be installed
into C:\Program Files, which will use more space on C:. And all your
emails and newsgroup posts will go into
C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows
Mail\WindowsMail.MSMessageStore, which will grow every time you use
Windows Mail. And, your Documents, Pictures and other such folders will
grow, too, and they are all on C: by default.

We could go on, but I think you get the point. Even though I've been
moderately aggressive about keeping things out of C:, I now have just 23
GB free on my 60 GB Drive C:. (Fortunately, I do have plenty of free
space on other volumes.)

RC

LOL!!

Fortunately, Toshiba have included this internal HD on my new laptop:
http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/storage/english/spec/hdd/mk1637gsx.htm

Also, my external D: drive, intended for full system backups, is same size.

Ample room for growth.

 

[Craig]

Hi there,

Here's a good link that explains memory use:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223

Cheers
Craig

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Iain.

Ample room for growth.

Great! But if you don't take pro-active steps, Vista will still try to put
everything I mentioned into C:, leaving those nice extra drives empty. :>(

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Craig.

Thanks for the URL. It's a good read, but it is dated 2004, long before
Vista arrived. Most of it still applies, but it must be read with its age
in mind.

And it does not relate to Rick's problem, except for the ~2 GB paging file.
Most of what I discussed will still have to be actively managed to keep
Vista from overflowing a too-small Drive C:. Memory is not the same as hard
drive storage.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

 

[Guest]

Hi RC,
Some very interesting comments! Thanks for your insights RC.
RickC

Craig.