Hi,
That's pretty much average for a Vista install, especially when you factor
in space requirements for System Restore, paging, and hibernation. It's
designed for modern systems, and these typically come with hard drives
>100GB so space would not be an issue. 20GB is ok if it's a system partition
only, but as you've seen you will quickly run out of space if it's the only
volume.
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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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My thoughts
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"Tigga" <Tigga@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only
> showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got
> any
> ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or
> programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've
> seen,
> vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes
> up
> that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000 