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06-10-2010, 09:35 AM
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Does Windows 7 take up a lot of space?
My brother recently got a Windows 7 64 bit refurbished computer. I installed Acronis on it and successfully made a backup image of it. But the backup took probably at least a half an hour and when I looked at the file it said it was 19 GB. My backup files are only about 3 GB. When I subtracted 428 from 453 I got 25. The programs installed come to 3 GB. So Windows 7 takes up 22 GB of space?
The computer just has one drive but the factory image is on the D: partition. It looks like the partition is 12 GB and it's got about 2 GB free. I guess I don't quite understand all the space hogging. My images are only about 2 or 3 GB. And I can make an image in about 1 minute. Not 30 minutes. |
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06-10-2010, 10:36 AM
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Your'e lucky my backups take about 70 GB and take about an hour to make.
And that's only one of my drives. If you are only backing up Windows and not all the data on the drive, Windows 7 on my computer takes about 15 GB. So if you are seeing 19 GB for the backup compressed it seems kind of big. On the other hand if you are backing up the whole disk with a lot of installed software and data then it seems reasonable. Look at the amount of used space on the disk, if is around 40 GB then a 19 GB backup seems reasonable. My C: drive has about 150 GB of data on it and the back up takes about 69 GB of space, I'm using Norton Ghost. Mike |
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06-10-2010, 11:44 AM
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The minimum required hard drive space for Win 7 64 bit is 20gb according to M$. A name brand computer with a preload and normal crapware will generally take up more than that.
The recovery image is highly compressed. |
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06-10-2010, 02:37 PM
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From my personal experience I've check XP SP3, Vista Home Prem and Win 7 Home Prem after fresh installs to see how much hard drive space is used. This was before ANY additional programs were installed. As I remember, XP used about 3.2Gb, Vista about 14.5Gb and Windows 7 about 7.5Gb. HTH
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06-10-2010, 08:28 PM
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Well the backup image I made was of course the operating system will all installed software so then according to what you said 19 GB seems about right.
What a hog. |
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06-10-2010, 10:38 PM
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Considering a 500gb hard drive is now entry level, you are losing perspective.
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06-21-2010, 02:45 AM
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Not everybody needs or even wants a 500 GB drive. I'm one of them. Really...what to do with all that space?
Why does Microsoft keep coming out with operating systems anyway? To keep the revenue coming in of course. We really don't need a new operating system. And then a new one after that. And then a new one after that... I'm perfectly happy with Windows XP. And I was perfectly happy with Windows 2000. Both are fantastic. |
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06-30-2010, 06:03 AM
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I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
Hard drive size in Windows 119gb Free space left 104gb thats a 15gb install right there...
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06-30-2010, 07:38 AM
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Hm. Wouldn't the version make a difference too? Like Home, Professional, Ultimate? So depending on the version, you may get a different result.
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