Why is W7Pro taking up half my hard drive?

Discussion in 'Windows OS's' started by Klaleara, Nov 7, 2011.

  1. Klaleara

    Klaleara Geek Trainee

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    W7Pro is suppose to only take up to 16 Gigs according to Google.

    I havn't even installed drivers, I"m sitting on some insanely ugly resolution typing this right now. I have 62 Gigs out of 111 Gigs free. What could possibly be causing 50 gigs to not appear?

    It is a 120 Gig drive (SSD).

    Also, I'm starting to think I should leave my SSD for Games only, and install the OS on a different hard drive. Unless having the OS on a different Hard Drive will impact performance.
     
  2. edijs

    edijs Programmer

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    From the top of my head:
    1. I would put my OS + all programs on the SSD - that will ensure the fastest startup/loading times. Having the OS on a HDD would diminish the performance gains, since interaction with the operating system is a ever present thing.
    2. Is this a fresh installation?
    3. Did you do a full formatting to NTFS prior to installation (w/o partitioning the SSD)?
     
  3. Klaleara

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    I cleared the OS completely, and formatted the drive. It created a System Reserve, but that was only 100 MB.

    Same thing happened when I got the drive brand new (Nothing ever on it). So I redid it thinking I may of done something stupid, but I did everything right it seems.
     
  4. Klaleara

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    Figured it out.

    The Hibernation file was 18 gigs alone.

    Ontop of that, because I have 24 gigs of RAM, it created a Virtual Memory pool of about 30 gigs.
     
  5. M_Kincy

    M_Kincy Geek

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    If you havn't done so already, you should disable windows write caching on the drive, write caching will GREATLY reduce the performance of SSD drives.
     
  6. tking0036

    tking0036 Geek

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    if you dont put your OS on your ssd you should definately put your page file on it. Putting your page file on a solid state disk will greatly increase performance
     
  7. Klaleara

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    Well, besides the point that this thread is from 2011, I posted the problem above. It was because I have 24 gigs of RAM, and windows automatically thinks you need more virtual RAM to support it! (For some reason)
     
  8. Klaleara

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    Its sorted out, just had to reduce my virtual RAM.
     

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