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    Clean windows seven, 29 GB ? why?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by johannesynt, Dec 25, 2012.

  1. johannesynt

    johannesynt Notebook Guru

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    Hi. Today I installed a mSATA on m14x, and i installed windows 7 (from original dvd form alienware). No backup, only a clean installation. Then i installed all the drivers with resource dvd...Is it possible that only windows+driver takes 29 gb? I can't belive that..my mSATA is 128, and now I have only about 80gb free.
     
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    Did you delete the old windows partition before installing the new one? If not, windows will keep a folder with some files from the previous installation under your C:/ drive, called Windows.old, if that's the case make sure you re-install windows to get rid of that folder as it will only give you trouble later on.
     
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    yes I deleted it. I ordered the pc with only a HDD 500gb, but when pc arrived, I remove tha original HDD, i installed a NEW msata, and i installed windows on msata.
     
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    ejohnson Is that lemon zest?

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    When I installed windows onto my msata on my htpc, I got it down to 17gb.

    Remove all the unused windows things.
    Set page file and delete hybernate. These 2 things will free up alot of space.
    Pagefile is the same as how much ram you have, hyrbernat is also a large chunk of space.
     
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    Thanks. I move the pagefile to teh second drive...but i don't know what is "hybernat" (sorry i'm italian, maybe i don't understand something)
     
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    ejohnson, Dec 27, 2012
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