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How big is a Windows 7 install CD?
In other words, how many megs or gigs? Just curious...
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How big is a Windows 7 install CD?
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news | In other words, how many megs or gigs? Just curious... Windows 7 on a DVD install and a usb install you looking at over 2gb |
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How big is a Windows 7 install CD?
On Fri, 09 May 2014 05:50:45 -0400, wrote:
In other words, how many megs or gigs? Just curious... It's a DVD, not a CD, and a regular DVD's size is about 4.4GB. |
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In other words, how many megs or gigs? Just curious... My Windows 7 is 26GB on a 40GB partition. An install DVD gets expanded when installed, which is why more space would be involved. Another way to estimate, is to download a VM from modern.ie and open the downloaded files in 7ZIP. The four IE10.Win7.For.WindowsVPC.part01.exe type files I have here, when examined with 7ZIP, the size shown for C: is 10,530,535,936 or let's call it 10.5GB. But you should allow some room for growth, and space for System Volume Information to work properly. http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualiz...ools#downloads A WinXP user, could install a copy of VPC2007, download IE10.Win7.For.WindowsVPC.part01.exe and the three other files, and end up with a working copy of Windows 7 (unactivated). It will run for a while, before you have to unpack another copy. It's possible that one, 7ZIP was not successful at unpacking the RAR, and the .exe actually had to be run itself, to work. VPC2007 is not the same thing as Windows Virtual PC, and some of the integration features will be broken if run that way. But that's the setup I use, when answering questions about Windows 7, from the comfort of my WinXP machine. Otherwise, I have to boot up my Windows 7 laptop. To run VMs, you should have a decent amount of RAM in the computer. If you're serious, you'd have at least 3GB of RAM on WinXP 32 bit, to give some "elbow room". That way, you can be running a VM or two, take screenshots, write posts etc, without running out of RAM. Paul |
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