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Vista On Laptop

AntiRip · 2007-05-25 13:04:00

hi I've just installed Vista Ultimate on my Inspiron 9300 laptop. I have 80 GB Hardrive but there is only 15.5GB Free. I've absolutely nothing installed on it just a clean install Vista so any ideas why this is so?? thanks

25-05-2007 1:04pm

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AntiRip

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hi

I've just installed Vista Ultimate on my Inspiron 9300 laptop. I have 80 GB Hardrive but there is only 15.5GB Free. I've absolutely nothing installed on it just a clean install Vista so any ideas why this is so??

thanks

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#2 25-05-2007 1:05pm

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Are you sure its not the other way around and that 15Gigs is being used? Vista needs 15Gb of space to run.

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#3 25-05-2007 1:30pm

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petes wrote:

Are you sure its not the other way around and that 15Gigs is being used? Vista needs 15Gb of space to run.

hi petes

i wish it was but no, it's says 15.4gb free of 69.7gb. I'm going to do another fresh install just in case i missed something

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#4 25-05-2007 1:31pm

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I still had to ask. I wouldn't go reinstalling just yet. Is it freshly installed this morning.

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#5 25-05-2007 1:39pm

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petes wrote:

I still had to ask. I wouldn't go reinstalling just yet. Is it freshly installed this morning.

Yep, right out of the box. I ran the setup in XP and did a fresh install on my existing partition. I've been looking through the folders such as program files in case programs from my last operationg system were there but no.

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#6 25-05-2007 1:41pm

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somethings very wrong here, now it's saying I've 12.1gb free!

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#7 25-05-2007 1:45pm

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Did you try your System volume Information folder could be that system restore is set to use a lot of hard disk space. Also how about the recycle bin.

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#8 25-05-2007 1:56pm

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ok i will check, I'm only using Vista for half an hour so still trying to get to grips..

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#9 25-05-2007 1:58pm

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Ok I've found the problem. For anyone installing a fresh copy of Vista in XP, Vista will save all your previous files in a folder called windows.old on your c: drive.

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#10 28-05-2007 12:24am

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windows vista doesnt take up 15g's .......!

i got visa ultimate, takes up about 7 1/2 gig.

maybe so if you count the old o/s that was installed previously.......

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#11 28-05-2007 4:17am

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Hi there , came up with this problem myself shortly after installing Vista , posted on a thread about it here called " hard drive filling because of Vista , "

Obviously your biggest space hog is the old files , you'll have to delete that for a start , however , shadowcopy and restore take up a huge amount of room and this can be reduced , follow the links in the thread below , basically you open a command line and tell vista how much space to use for shadow copy and how much to use for restore points.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055088252&referrerid=&highlight=hard+drive+space+vista

Oh by the way , Vista is a 15GB install on a new machine , dont know how the poster on here got it to 7GB but thats not right , must have compressed something or removed something to get it that small !!

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