Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How much space does Windows XP take?

Some notes from reinstalling my thinkpad z60t using built-in rescue and recovery (restore to factory original state).

GB usedCumulative GB
Initial Install6.5
First Batch of Windows updates 2.89.3
XP SP3 1.210.5
Delete swap area -2.08.5
Windows Media Player 11 0.28.7
More Windows updates 0.18.8
Lenovo System Update 2.311.1

GB=10243 = 1073741824 bytes.

Absolute minimum space needed is 11.1GB or 11.9*109 bytes. Resized to 15 "GB" in the Debian installer but the installer used GB=109 bytes, so ended up getting only 13.9 GB, leaving 2.8 GB free.

It looks like 2GB could be saved if hibernation is disabled.

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