20gb Drive only has 5.90gb space after clean vista install

After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only
showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got any
ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or
programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've seen,
vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes up
that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000

Vista version ??
Vista applications enabled ?
..winston

"Tigga" <Tigga@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8F791462-D73A-414E-82C6-EA046150139F@microsoft.com...
: After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only
: showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got any
: ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or
: programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've seen,
: vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes up
: that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000

Hi,

That's pretty much average for a Vista install, especially when you factor
in space requirements for System Restore, paging, and hibernation. It's
designed for modern systems, and these typically come with hard drives
>100GB so space would not be an issue. 20GB is ok if it's a system partition
only, but as you've seen you will quickly run out of space if it's the only
volume.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Tigga" <Tigga@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F791462-D73A-414E-82C6-EA046150139F@microsoft.com...
> After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only
> showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got
> any
> ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or
> programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've
> seen,
> vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes
> up
> that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000

thanks, looks like i'll have to save up a bit to get a bigger drive,
Vista 6.0 btw

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> That's pretty much average for a Vista install, especially when you factor
> in space requirements for System Restore, paging, and hibernation. It's
> designed for modern systems, and these typically come with hard drives
> >100GB so space would not be an issue. 20GB is ok if it's a system partition
> only, but as you've seen you will quickly run out of space if it's the only
> volume.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Tigga" <Tigga@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8F791462-D73A-414E-82C6-EA046150139F@microsoft.com...
> > After doing a clean install of vista ultimate on a 20 gb hdd, i'm only
> > showing 5.90gb of free space, surely the os cant be 14gb, has anyone got
> > any
> > ideas how to free up some space so that i can install a couple of games or
> > programs, or why it takes that much room? is it a bug? From what i've
> > seen,
> > vista is really good, apart from the space problem, though if vista takes
> > up
> > that much room, i think i'll have to go back to windows 2000
>
>