Windows 8 Installation...do I have enough space?

DennisColes · 28 Oct 2012 at 23:56

I have a 60gb SSD that has Windows 7 installed on it..plus a few programs.

It has 8gb of free space left.

Will i be able to have windows 8 install on it?

DennisColes · 19 Jan 2013 at 16:33

So it won't overwrite the old Windows Installation?

DennisColes · 20 Jan 2013 at 16:38

Okay, someone please help!

I have a 60gb Crucial M4 SSD with only 12GB of space left.

I also have a 1 TB hard drive with music/files and everything else on there.

If i want to upgrade to Windows 8.......what do I need to do? I've disabled the pagefile and stuff.

DennisColes · 20 Jan 2013 at 16:42

demonix said:
The extra 20+GB is for when it backs up the old OS in case anything goes wrong and it has to restore it.

You'll need to make sure that space is available before doing the upgrade along with the space that is needed for the download and the initial part of the upgrade.

So how much in total needs to be free on my SSD with my current Windows 7 Installation before i attempt to upgrade to Windows 7?

DennisColes · 20 Jan 2013 at 18:45

this_is_gav said:
If you want to wipe the old drive you can. You just do so when you run the installer from the DVD/USB as you normally would when installing Windows 7.

So boot from the Win 8 dvd and there should be an option to overwrite everything on the Windows 7 drive?

DennisColes · 31 Jan 2013 at 00:44

Okay thanks for the help.

What if I don't want to overwrite? I only have 13GB of space left. I'm using SpaceSniffer to delete unneccessary files but a lot of them are confusing me.

For example I have found a 2.0gb file called "Install.esd" in the C:\ESD\Windows\sources directory.