Minimum size HD - Windows 7 Footprint

wingnutta · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:25

Just a quickie - i am looking at the following hard drive for windows 7 ultimate:

Intel X25-V Value 40GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (SSDSA2MP040G2R5)

I only want the drive for win7 as program files going onto a f3. Question is - is this 40gb enough for the os only????

reflux · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:27

IIRC Windows 7 comes to about 15gb with the most important updates installed.

Anth · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:30

Yes 40GB is just enough.

I have a Corsair 64GB SSD (which is 60GB after formatting) and it is currently only 30Gig full from 4 months worth of use with Windows 7 x64 Pro version.

I have installed all my programs (quite a few) to this drive though and my desktop has a few GB's worth of video files (5.38GB's worth to be exact), so 40GB is easily doable with some management.

khemist · 17 Jan 2010 at 14:30

I'm using the kingston 40gb with win 7 and i have all my common used progs on it and BF2 with 7.7GB left... i think the win 7 install used around 20gb.

The Asgard · 17 Jan 2010 at 16:12

Did a fresh install of Windows 7 64 bit on a new 40GB Intel X25-V Value and I was left with just over 16 GB after all the updates.

DrBombcrater · 17 Jan 2010 at 17:12

Disable hibernation and (if you have 4gb ram or more) shrink the pagefile down to 256mb and a fresh Win 7 installation should be < 10GB.

sonteq · 17 Jan 2010 at 17:57

I've got 23gigs free on my X25-V

hyperst · 17 Jan 2010 at 18:11

turning off system restore will free up 3-4 gig

The Asgard · 17 Jan 2010 at 20:00

sonteq said:
I've got 23gigs free on my X25-V

Moving the page file to drive D will give around 22 GB free.

cupofchow · 17 Jan 2010 at 23:22

I just installed W7 Premium on my Kingston 40Gb SSD and when i turned off hibernation, system restore moved pagefile to F3 drive and it tokk 8.8Gb and with BF2 installed it takes up 12.2Gb with 24.9Gb Free

That will do for me.

Sbe · 18 Jan 2010 at 03:18

W7 Ultimate, World of Warcraft and a few small apps like Fraps, codec pack and 2 SSD benchmark apps leaves me with 12.3Gb remaiing, usual things like Hibernate and system restore are turned off on my Kingston 40Gb.

cupofchow · 18 Jan 2010 at 13:56

oh i have nod32, ccleaner, xeno pro drivers, codec pack installed with WMP classic and have uninstalled WMP and MC. I think i did alright

happy_2008 · 18 Jan 2010 at 14:04

Do you turn these off during the installation?

Hoodlum · 18 Jan 2010 at 14:05

40gb is plenty for the OS alone.

cupofchow · 18 Jan 2010 at 14:50

happy_2008 said:
Do you turn these off during the installation?

No once the installation has finished you go to control panal> uninstall a program and in the left hand column you will see turn windows features on or off, now run through there and untick what you dont need like : internet explorer, games, media centre, media player and so on.

Darren1967 · 18 Jan 2010 at 15:18

If you're installing Windows 7 on a small capacity SSD then make sure you relocate your User\<Name> folders to a second HDD because, if you're like me, and have tons of music and videos then by default the My Videos and My Music folders are placed on the C: (system) drive. Just right-click on the folder you want to move and select the (I think) Location tab then change the C: to whichever drive letter you want to move your folders to. Personally I prefer this because it means less space is needed to backup my C: drive image.