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Insane Quaker
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PostPosted: 11-18-2011 03:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I installed an OEM 64-bit copy of windows 7 last night only to discover that, on its own, it was chewing up about 30GB of space. Clean install, formatted drive, wiped, etc. I googled around and most folks seem to say it's about 10GB.

I sense something is slightly off.




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PostPosted: 11-18-2011 07:34 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 with patches and it's only 23GB and that's not even a clean installation.

x64 does take a bit more space, ~20GB. Do you have hibernation enabled? Hibernation reserves as much disk space as you have RAM.



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Insane Quaker
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PostPosted: 11-18-2011 07:59 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Ahhhhhh crap I believe I do.

16GB

Still seems kinda bloated though..




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PostPosted: 11-18-2011 03:47 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Year old install of 7 Home Premium 64 bit and mine's almost 22GB. No hibernation. Have you checked to see what restore is taking up? I know it's a new install, but it could still be taking up some space.




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PostPosted: 11-18-2011 07:48 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Windows 7 pro, 64 bit, no hibernation, 18.8GB.




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PostPosted: 11-19-2011 04:10 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's 2011, we (work) allow anything up to 40Gb for a standards client OS installation. Why sweat it? Storage is cheap as fuark and life is short.




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PostPosted: 11-19-2011 06:55 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's on an 120GB SSD, so space is kind of at a premium. I'm not at home at the moment, but I can easily check restore points, but it's starting to sound like Windows 7 is just much heftier than I anticipated. Cest La vie. I'll just be making more use of symbolic links...or whatever windows 7 calls them.




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PostPosted: 11-19-2011 07:45 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Junctions.

If it's any consolation Win7's actual usage is usually lower than the sum of it's folder sizes, since stuff like WinSxS mis-reports (because it's kinda using junctions itself)




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PostPosted: 11-19-2011 08:17 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Win 7 Premium 64 bit takes 14.9 GB....not even one-tenth my porn collection.




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PostPosted: 11-21-2011 10:25 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


lez porn don't count.

i bet you can't beat my 1TB+ gay pr0n



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PostPosted: 12-15-2011 10:11 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Foo wrote:
Why sweat it? Storage is cheap as fuark and life is short.



Not any more!!!! :D




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PostPosted: 12-16-2011 12:22 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Aw yeah. I deployed thin provisioning on our SAN today just to avoid having to buy HDDs for the next couple-a-monfs.




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PostPosted: 12-16-2011 05:45 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Yeah forget buying HD for the next 6 months at least... thank you flooding in Thailand...




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PostPosted: 12-16-2011 08:53 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


just checked my win folder after a year, and it's 20.7 GB



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PostPosted: 12-29-2011 01:28 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


You can free up a few gigs of space by removing unnecessary Service Pack install files. Of course, these are needed to uninstall, but it's rare (and highly unadvised) to revert from a Service Pack. DISM.EXE works on Server 2008 OS's as well. Very handy.

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\duffman91>dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Removing backup files created during service pack installation.
[==========================100.0%==========================]
Service Pack Cleanup operation completed.
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Users\duffman91>




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