I had a spare 20 gig hard drive that I use as an emergency back up. That drive is broken into 2 10 gig partitions. It would not install on one of those partitions because it told me it needed 11 gigs of required free space.

I'm doing a clean install of Vista Home Basic on a unpartitioned 160 gig hard drive right now. The OS itself is around 3.8 gigs. After taking out the required 11 gigs of free space, that's just under 15 gigs gone before I even start installing programs. On a 120 gig hard drive, that's just under 1/6th of the drive.

I still stand up to what I said in my previous post. Vista just isn't feasible to install on anything lower than a 120 gig hard drive if you plan on putting large files onto those drives.

I forgot to add in my previous post that I have XP Pro installed on one of those 10 gig partitions in that 20 gig hard drive. That partition has 4.5 gigs of free space left after the programs I use for backups have been installed.

!!! I have vista on a 20 gig partition. After installation, barely 4 gigs are left for other programs.

i know, vista needs at least a 30gb HDD to run nicely.

Hi Yas;
There are some sites you can download windows vista trial if u wud like to experience it, otherwize its in stores now so u can jus go n get yourself a copy and i dont think anyone will jus upload vista for u.

yes, and if you are implying piracy then go look somewhere else. daniweb is not the place for that.

I agree that Vista is pretty demanding when it comes to drive size. The price of storage today is much better than just a few years ago. To take full advantage of Vista you should check your hardware to make sure you can use the "Media Center" that is now built into Windows Vista. If you are buying a new PC the hardware will be compatible, older hardware will require some research.

Hi Guys

I have raised this question in one of the other threads as well and thought that it is a bit relevant here as well. As this thread is about installing Vista, is there anyone who could provide some hints or tips on how to get Vista on Dual boot (say with XP, 2000 etc)?

What is it that we have to be careful about? like if theres already Vista loaded on do we have to format the drive and install both the os again obviously after making required partitions for both OSs.

But as long as Vista requiring 120 gig is concerned I dont think thats correct. I got it on a 60 gig partition with at least about 45+gig left fot documents etc. It does need other resources as memory and graphics ability but HDD requirement of 120 is juss ridiculous.

Regards
Raj

id say 60gb

vista + office + drivers + updates comes to like 35+ gb

I have Vista Ultimate on a WD 80gig hard drive. You don't know what you are talking about