The last time I did a full install with SP1 and all updates, board and hardware drivers, disabled Hibernate, set Restore space to 5% of a 256GB SSD, the install was 15.6GB, no software other than security.
durango1 I presume after all those post you understand it's not Windows 7 using up all that hard drive. Could give us one of these so we can take a look.
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Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums
These could also be helpful
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Hard Disk Space - Free Up and Recover
Disk Cleanup - Open and Use
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No I have windows installed on a 60gb ssd drive with a couple apps and have 25gbs free. You can free up space by moving restore points or img's to a 2nd drive. Also disabling hibernate if you don't use it will free drive space. You really only would need 1tb if you have a lot of big apps like games or other media files. I keep all my games , other big apps and music and movies. Also my img backups and restore points on my spare 500gb hdd. I say for windows alone with a couple apps a 60gb drive is the size I would recommend for a windows install though I've installed win7 on 40 gb drives with about 15 Gbs to spare like on my bros hdd.
My windows partition includeds ALL my apps, not games takes up on 57mb. And I have quite a few BIG apps.
My install W7 Ultimate (64 bit) uses ~25GB, which includes:
- Office 2007 (~1 GB)
- VMware Workstation 7 (~3 GB)
- ~60 other programs.
My user files are stored on separate partitions (e.g. Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Music & Videos).
Try using a disc space analyser like WinDirStat to work out what is using up your HDD space.
WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
I use the analyser that comes with Glary Utilities.
You must have some heavy softwares eating space and documents in Libraries
Try cleaning your recycle bin.
I much prefer Glary's analyzer to WinDirStat. In fact, I never could make any sense of WinDirStat (being color blind doesn't help).My install W7 Ultimate (64 bit) uses ~25GB, which includes:
My user files are stored on separate partitions (e.g. Documents, Pictures, Downloads, Music & Videos).
- Office 2007 (~1 GB)
- VMware Workstation 7 (~3 GB)
- ~60 other programs.
Try using a disc space analyser like WinDirStat to work out what is using up your HDD space.
WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
I use the analyser that comes with Glary Utilities.
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