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Zenkai
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Posted - 2010.09.11 04:59:00 -
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The wife made the mistake of saying that she felt I wasn't spending enough Money on myself in the past few months, so this past weekend I took the train down to Akihabara so see what upgrades I could get for my desktop.
Current Specs:
Asus P6T Deluxe V2
Intel Core i7 920 O.C'ed to 4.00GHZ
2x Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GIG (Xfire)
10GB 1600mhz DDR3 RAM (+4 from previous build)
32GB Patriot SSD (Bought this weekend for 5000(Yen) ($50-$60 US)
2x 2TB HDD (Gen.)
1x 250GB HDD (Gen.)/(System files)
Now I take all my newly acquired loot home and install it with no problems. Format my old system disk and install a fresh copy of Windows 7 (64bit) on the new SSD, install all the windows updates drives etc... So it gets time for me to install EVE I start the download pop off for a smoke and return to find the annoying little error "Hard Disk Full" and check to find that my brand spanking new SSD only has about 2GB of space left on it 
"Damn Windows 7's got a Fat ass" I mutter to myself while restarting the download and pointing it towards one of my larger disk and pop outside to suck on another cancer stick. And return to find the download finished  . Double click the icon and start her up while surfing the net knowing that soon I'll be watching my Thanatos Spin in its hanger with 4 more Gigs of ram chug chug chuging away... Error 'message cannot extract due to low disk space.' What the hell?!? Turns out the EVE client extracts itself to a temporary folder on the system drive before installing. You know? The one thatĘs stuffed to capacity with Windows' Gargantuan Ass? So now I'm stuck so to speak and beseech you OOPE to help be free up disk space on my C:\Drive.
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Zenkai
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TOASTED Corp
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Posted - 2010.09.11 05:51:00 -
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 Originally by: Blane Xero
My windows 7 ultimate 64bit install comes to 13.5gigabytes right now.
Where that extra 20gig~ gone?
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Additional requirements to use certain features:
Internet access (fees may apply)
From Microsoft Website: http://windows.microsoft.com/systemrequirements
As for the remaining 12GB of data I can only guess it has something to do with updates installed after the clean install (Doesn't make sense disk cleanup seems nothing) or an issue with the SSD itself which would explain why it was discounted so much (Comparable SSDs at the same store were twice the price).
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Zenkai
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TOASTED Corp
Sev3rance
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Posted - 2010.09.11 06:15:00 -
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Originally by: Taser Monkey
Now you can go replace that SSD with a 64 Gig one or buy another and raid them, because you should have done a little research at least. You, obviously, spent a lot of time researching OCing that i7 but couldn't be arsed spending 5 mins looking up Win 7 installation size 
Thanks for the info! The first two comments were beginning to make me think that I would spend this thread defending my honor, what little of it there is. I'm a tech by trade (Electronics Technician by Naval rate), I can take apart a power supply for a Cisco router, identify burned out components and replace them like now but the software side of things... well we have an engineer for that . Back to the task at hand, the Gen Markings I put on my Specs are for "generic" I'm at work right now and can't be assed to remember the types of HDs I have other then the most new and shiny one but I'm sure they are not greens. Windows website stated that the footprint "shouldn't be more then 20GB" (32-20=12) and several websites I've visited have stated 32GB should fit "If barely," what I didn't know was how barely they where talking about. I've attempted to clear out the temp files with no joy the maintenance program says they are empty. Additionally I've been looking for ways of moving them along with all the other user files (My Documents etc.) to my secondary HD but that requires (UGH!) screwing with REGEDIT and the bag of ****s that entails.
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Zenkai
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TOASTED Corp
Sev3rance
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Posted - 2010.09.11 06:53:00 -
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Originally by: Zeba
Hrmmm, maybe you need to make the windows swap file static and on one of the 2tb disks.
Thank you that should free up at least a gig or two I'll look into it.
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Zenkai
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TOASTED Corp
Sev3rance
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Posted - 2010.09.11 07:20:00 -
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Originally by: Taser Monkey
Originally by: Zenkai
Originally by: Taser Monkey
Now you can go replace that SSD with a 64 Gig one or buy another and raid them, because you should have done a little research at least. You, obviously, spent a lot of time researching OCing that i7 but couldn't be arsed spending 5 mins looking up Win 7 installation size
Thanks for the info! The first two comments were beginning to make me think that I would spend this thread defending my honor, what little of it there is. I'm a tech by trade (Electronics Technician by Naval rate), I can take apart a power supply for a Cisco router, identify burned out components and replace them like now but the software side of things... well we have an engineer for that . Back to the task at hand, the Gen Markings I put on my Specs are for "generic" I'm at work right now and can't be assed to remember the types of HDs I have other then the most new and shiny one but I'm sure they are not greens. Windows website stated that the footprint "shouldn't be more then 20GB" (32-20=12) and several websites I've visited have stated 32GB should fit "If barely," what I didn't know was how barely they where talking about. I've attempted to clear out the temp files with no joy the maintenance program says they are empty. Additionally I've been looking for ways of moving them along with all the other user files (My Documents etc.) to my secondary HD but that requires (UGH!) screwing with REGEDIT and the bag of ****s that entails.
And this is what they mean with minimum requirements. Minimum means... barely working. Before I reinstalled Windows a few days ago, due to the dying of one of my Raid HD's Win came to 40 GB and that's just updates, basic programmes (AV, Spyware, diagnostics, Open Office etc). I never leave any of my important files on the C Drive, everything is backed up on other HD's (better safe than sorry).
I have 231 GB of installed games and I back all my discs up on my HD (games and programmes) and that comes to 500GB. Then I have my drivers and utilities on another partition, coming to 50GB. I have never lost anything due to the death of my C drive and I'm quite happy about that.
The SSD is only for my Windows install all other programs (NewsBin, Kapersky, Eve Etc.) will be a on seperate drive remember I have 4TB!!! to play with outside of the SSD and slots for more should I need it.
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Zenkai
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TOASTED Corp
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Posted - 2010.09.11 10:11:00 -
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Edited by: Zenkai on 11/09/2010 10:13:18
I'm at home now checked have the page file allocation... Well apparently Windows decided I needed 10gigs of virtual memory  I dialed it down to a more reasonable number (1GB) and told the system it could hog as much as it needed on my other HDDs. It seems to be happy with that arrangement and Windows ass has shrunk to a acceptable 22GB. Thanks again for the help guys... I'd new it would be something stupid but I was at my wits end.
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