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Windows 7 Hard Drive Size Requirement
Hi. I am looking to upgrade my Inspiron 1521 from Vista Home Basic (32-bit) to Windows 7 Professional (32-bit). I checked with Dell support and they said that my system meets the requirements for the upgrade. Here are some of my system specs: 4GB of RAM and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor. However, I am worried about my hard drive size.I am not sure how to find out the exact physical size of my hard drive, but in my computer, it shows 61.9GB on OS(C:) and 9.99GB on Recovery (D:). Of course this led me to assume that I had about a 72GB hard drive, but I'm not even sure that that is a possibility, so maybe 80GB. Anyway, I have heard that the performance of Windows 7 may be lacking with a hard drive this size. Does it require a larger hard drive than Vista would? Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.
Thanks so much for the quick reply. That's what I expected to hear - i figured that I wouldn't have to do anything differently, since I have always had that hard drive and have been running Vista with it. I think I'm going to go ahead and do a clean install with the upgrade disk.
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Posted April 16th, 2011 21:00
Enjoy.
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Posted April 16th, 2011 17:00
No, a small hard drive will not affect the perforance or how well Windows 7 runs. You need a minimum of 16GB for the install. In practical terms, you will need a drive at least 60GB in size - for future growth - if you are careful with what is stored/installed on the drive. Your drive is an 80GB drive - around 74GB of that will be usable by Windows - and should be plenty large to run Windows ... again, as long as you are catious about what is put on it.