Why does Vista take up so much disk space?
Mar 25 2009 06:08 PM Filed in: Microsoft
I had wiped out my Boot Camp partition on my MacBook
because I found I was never booting into it.
Silverlight 3 was released in beta last week, and I
wanted a machine on which to play around with it, so
I set up a partition again. I gave my Vista Boot Camp
partition 32 GB of space. After a fresh install of
Vista was complete it reported that I have 14 GB
left. Why on earth would an OS take up over 15 GB of
space? I realize disk space is cheap these days, but
isn’t that a little ridiculous? It’s not like it
comes with all sorts of pre-installed software. I can
see how Vista wouldn’t work well with NetBooks. Paige
got a Dell Mini netbook, and it has a 32 GB SSD drive
in it. It would suck if over half of her hard drive
was taken up right from the beginning just by the OS
install.
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