Does Vista use more hard disk space?

Jimbo · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:13

Because im sure its eating the space on my Raptor 74gig at alarming rates. Ive hardly any apps and stuff on compared to xp, and its using about 40gig. Thats with 3 games on too.

Jimi · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:22

Most definately, my Windows folder alone is 10.5GB.

Jimbo · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:27

Yeah so it is... god dammit. :mad:

PhilthyPhil · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:32

It does say in the system requirements that you will need 15GB free space...

toString · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:37

How surprising.. I expected it to use the same amount of space as 95/3.1!

Jimbo · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:46

Wtf? are you trying to be funny?

And it wasnt about how much the windows folder uses, it was about why I keep losing hard disk space for no apperent reason.

Felix Da Housecat · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:48

Jimbo said:
Because im sure its eating the space on my Raptor 74gig at alarming rates. Ive hardly any apps and stuff on compared to xp, and its using about 40gig. Thats with 3 games on too.

Go into my computer and click on your raptor, and check how many folders you have called "windows" you should only have one.

When i first installed vista it didn't delete the xp files before installation; and due to having problems i re-installed it for the 2nd time, and again the pc didn't delete the old files prior to installation, so i ended up with 3 windows folders, one called "windows", one "windows000" and another with some other numbers after it.

With these three folders my new installation was weighing a hefty 49gb so i removed the extra folders and i managed to get the size down to under 20gb

I know it was old files from xp as i found some old media files still on the hdd.

Jimbo · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:52

Yeah thanks mate, I only have the one. I did a disk cleanup and highlited delete stuff from the recycle bin and it still left files in there and one is a hefty 4.5gig, guess I'll just have to be a bit more conservative about things.

M0KUJ1N · 4 Feb 2007 at 11:59

tbh Id have thought the fact that XP came on a CD while Vista comes on a DVD a big clue

Jimbo · 4 Feb 2007 at 12:03

Its not about how big the install is.. its about why I seem to be losing space mate.

PhilthyPhil · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:17

Have you run disk clean up (now found under performance and information tools in control panel). Also turn off memory dumps if you are having problems with any programs crashing, I'm sure at one point Vista was doing a full memory dump every time something crashed and with 4GB of memory that soon eats up a lot of disk.

Jimbo · 4 Feb 2007 at 14:33

Thanks for the advice Phil I'll give that a try.