Win7 install footprint is nowhere near that. Not even remotely close. But most oems load it down with things, swap file and a hibernation file can add a couple gig, etc.
Win7 has most of the basic drivers built in for the most part. A 32bit win7 install can be done in a 16g drive. A 64 in a 20. My sizes at base were: 10.7, 13.9. Ymmv. Note: is is about 60% of a vista install, so its slimmed down quite a bit ------Original Message------ From: Soren Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com ReplyTo: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Backing up Win7 woes Sent: Sep 3, 2010 3:37 PM Hi, I recently bought my mom a laptop with Win7. Fine. Not so fine is that the C: partition seems to occupy +34 gigabytes. What I want is to be able to make a ghost image within reasonable limits. +34 gigabytes doesn't seem so. As of yet unexperienced with Win7, is this the normal disk (ab)use of the O/S? Slipstreaming? /s Sent via BlackBerry
