Recommended space for Vista?

sugoi · 29 Apr 2007 at 17:24

Im still on XP at the moment, with a partition of 30GB just for Windows and other Applications... is that enough for Windows Vista in general, i just want to re-use this existing partition if possible....

ok just read the requirements form MS web site, and it states 40GB recommended and 10-15gb extra for other things, hmm guess it might not be enough then... :rolleyes:

sugoi · 29 Apr 2007 at 17:35

Robbie G, how much space did you have left after the initial installation of ultimate on your 20GB partition? if you can recall...

I plan to install Design applications such as Adobe on it... that must take up at least 5GB and then Office which is probably about the same or slightly less.... but i guess i could install those on another partition...

sugoi · 30 Apr 2007 at 04:26

i've just discovered something, my WD SATA-II HDD 250GB has Vista installed on it, i only just installed it today, and the hard drive is constantly seeking, it's like it is constantly trying to find something, it's so loud, quite unbearable... any ideas why? :confused:

it's the loudest thing in my case at the moment...

with XP it wasn't this bad....not sure if my HDD is getting worn out or not...

sugoi · 30 Apr 2007 at 04:49

Lunix said:
That will be vista indexing your files more than likey as its a fresh install, don't worry it will calm down soon enough and it shouldn't affect performance at all whilst it index's

I hope so, the thing is i've restarted the PC over five times tho from updates, etc... still doing the same? how long does it usually take? obviously it's noisier when updating, but it sounds really unhealthy...

shall i just defrag the windows vista partition? would that help? or leave it as is...

sugoi · 30 Apr 2007 at 14:52

i see... i have 12GB left now out of the initial 30GB i gave it, and havent even installed Adobe or Office yet... :eek:

need a new HDD later i reckon....