disk space for install??

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Seasidepeter

Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

of win7.

She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?



How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?



Anybody know please?
 
D

Dennis Pack

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Win-7 Enterprise x64, Win-7 Professional x64.

"Seasidepeter" wrote in message

news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She currently

> runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version of win7.

> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows compatabiliuty

> checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on installation it

> says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>

> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>

> Anybody know please?

>

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Seasidepeter:

Perform a disk cleanup and defragmentation prior to doing an update

installation. The "not enough disk space" message may be caused by not

having a block of disk space large enough to hold the Image of the Win-7

installation. Vista and Windows 7 are installed as an image rather than

copying files in earlier versions. Another option that should work is with

Laptop on the Vista welcome screen insert the Win-7 upgrade disk. You should

get an option to perform a clean installation which will lose all data on

the Laptop. Have a great day.

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SC Tom

"Seasidepeter" wrote in message

news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She currently

> runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version of win7.

> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows compatabiliuty

> checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on installation it

> says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>

> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>

> Anybody know please?



It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

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"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed

any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."
 
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philo

Seasidepeter wrote:

> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

> of win7.

> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

> installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>

> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>

> Anybody know please?





try the upgrade from within Windows rather than booting from the dvd
 
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Seasidepeter

philo wrote:

> Seasidepeter wrote:

>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

>> of win7.

>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

>> installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>

>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>

>> Anybody know please?

>

>

> try the upgrade from within Windows rather than booting from the dvd

Yes, I have - same error message. Very strange - and utterly predictable

when a chap is trying to impress a girl!

I've uninstalled ev erything except windows vista on the hard drive,

leaving 60Gb free - and still upgrade says "not enough space..." Bah
 
K

Ken Blake, MVP

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:04:31 -0400, "SC Tom" wrote:



>

> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

> > Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She currently

> > runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version of win7.

> > She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows compatabiliuty

> > checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on installation it

> > says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

> > That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

> >

> > How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

> >

> > Anybody know please?

>

> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?





That would be my guess!



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Trimble Bracegirdle

Seasidepeter ) Win 7 64 Bit Ultimate say it needs 21 GB "Recommended"

Of this around 11 Gigs is the WINDOWS Folder .

The other installed Program files & Users Folders take up 1 GB total.



The big variable in the install or any WINDOWS is the pagefile.sys

& hyberfile.sys files whose size depends on the amount of main memory..

On a 4 GB RAM machine they will both be around 4 GB each.

The installer would take a smaller than that 21 GB available disc space

by reducing the initial sizes.



I manually set pagefile.sys to a fixed 1GB (which is enough on my General

purpose

games etc., Home PC with 6 GB Ram) & turn of hibernation completely so no

hyberfile.sys.

My recently installed 64bit is using a grand total of 14 GB



The total WINDOWS 7 size is probably a bit smaller for the Basic , Pro

etc., versions.

(\__/)

(='.'=)

(")_(") mouse (WIN 95 used 30 to 50 MB)
 
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Seasidepeter

SC Tom wrote:

>

> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

>> of win7.

>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

>> installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>

>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>

>> Anybody know please?

>

> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?



As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C drive,

consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned out all

tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc (onto an

external drive!), then defragged again.



Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program still

halts with a "not enough free space" message.



?????
 
S

SC Tom

"Seasidepeter" wrote in message

news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

> SC Tom wrote:

>>

>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

>>> of win7.

>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

>>> installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>

>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>

>>> Anybody know please?

>>

>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>

> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C drive,

> consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned out all

> tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc (onto an

> external drive!), then defragged again.

>

> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program still

> halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>

> ?????



Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes. You

won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key stroke,

usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will look at the

first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and since the Recovery

partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will error out. Does the

installation give you a choice of which partition to install to?

Check this post :

http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would think,

anything similar) been used on the laptop?

--

SC Tom



"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed

any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."

Lt. Col. J.D. "Jeff" Cooper, USMC, Ret.
 
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Seasidepeter

SC Tom wrote:

>

> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>

>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade

>>>> version of win7.

>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But

>>>> on installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install

>>>> win7.

>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>

>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>

>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>

>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>

>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C

>> drive, consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned

>> out all tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc

>> (onto an external drive!), then defragged again.

>>

>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program

>> still halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>

>> ?????

>

> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes.

> You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key

> stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will

> look at the first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and

> since the Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will

> error out. Does the installation give you a choice of which partition to

> install to?

> Check this post :

> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>

> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

which my friend didn't want.

I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all

the F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be

installed (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the

computer's OEM.

This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?
 
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Trimble Bracegirdle

Apologies as some of Window Folder sizes I've just given in the

previous post are far to large. Its 10 GB total rather than 14GB.



Opening a Explorer window displaying the Drive contents

of the Windows 7 installation & then 'selecting' the folders &

asking for 'properties' (which is what I was doing) gives

a much bigger total than that given when looking at the Drive's properties

in 'My Computer' or from a CHKDSK report.



Its something to do with Links within Windows pointing to Files & Folders

more than once so things get counted repeatedly ...some of them 'Pretend' ..

not there at all.

My actual WINDOWS 7 Ultimate 64bit just installed Total is

10.1 GB with a fixed 1GB Pagefile.sys & no Hiberfile.sys at all.

(\__/)

(='.'=)

(")_(") mouse (He's still confused)
 
D

Dennis Pack

Seasidepeter:

I don't currently have the OE hard drive in laptop, I'll try to find it

to get a proper answer to your problem. A possible solution may be to boot

off the upgrade DVD, select clean installation on the larger available

partition listed, do not enter a product key at this time perform a clean

installation, do not register it yet. With the system running insert the

installation DVD perform an upgrade installation to the partition that you

just installed to, insert the product key and register after installation.

Have a great day.



--

Dennis Pack

Win-7 Enterprise x64, Win-7 Professional x64.

"Seasidepeter" wrote in message

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> SC Tom wrote:

>>

>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>>

>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

>>>>> of win7.

>>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

>>>>> installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

>>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>>

>>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>>

>>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>>

>>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>>

>>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C drive,

>>> consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned out all

>>> tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc (onto an

>>> external drive!), then defragged again.

>>>

>>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program still

>>> halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>>

>>> ?????

>>

>> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes.

>> You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key

>> stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will look

>> at the first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and since the

>> Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will error out.

>> Does the installation give you a choice of which partition to install to?

>> Check this post :

>> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

>> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

> Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

> partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

> which my friend didn't want.

> I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all the

> F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

> direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be installed

> (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the computer's OEM.

> This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?

>

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SC Tom

"Seasidepeter" wrote in message

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> SC Tom wrote:

>>

>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>>

>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade version

>>>>> of win7.

>>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But on

>>>>> installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install win7.

>>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>>

>>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>>

>>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>>

>>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>>

>>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C drive,

>>> consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned out all

>>> tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc (onto an

>>> external drive!), then defragged again.

>>>

>>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program still

>>> halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>>

>>> ?????

>>

>> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes.

>> You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key

>> stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will look

>> at the first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and since the

>> Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will error out.

>> Does the installation give you a choice of which partition to install to?

>> Check this post :

>> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

>> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

> Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

> partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

> which my friend didn't want.

> I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all the

> F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

> direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be installed

> (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the computer's OEM.

> This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?



I'm not sure how to get around it, but something you might try is to create

an image of the C: drive using something like Acronis True Image or a

similar program, then reformat your hard drive and create a single

partition. Then restore the image and try the upgrade after you're sure the

disk will boot. I'm thinking that the upgrade program will then see it as a

"regular" drive and not an Easus partition.

--

SC Tom



"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed

any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."

Lt. Col. J.D. "Jeff" Cooper, USMC, Ret.
 
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Gene E. Bloch

On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:27:28 +0100, Seasidepeter wrote:



> SC Tom wrote:

>>

>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>>

>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade

>>>>> version of win7.

>>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But

>>>>> on installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install

>>>>> win7.

>>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>>

>>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>>

>>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>>

>>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>>

>>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C

>>> drive, consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned

>>> out all tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc

>>> (onto an external drive!), then defragged again.

>>>

>>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program

>>> still halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>>

>>> ?????

>>

>> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes.

>> You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key

>> stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will

>> look at the first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and

>> since the Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will

>> error out. Does the installation give you a choice of which partition to

>> install to?

>> Check this post :

>> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>>

>> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

>> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

> Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

> partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

> which my friend didn't want.

> I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all

> the F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

> direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be

> installed (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the

> computer's OEM.

> This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?



It is possible that the D: was the recovery partition. Crazy as it sound, I

have an HP laptop in which the recovery partition was partition D:. I

removed the letter as soon as I saw that...



I'm thinking, though, that the problem might be with the master boot record

or the partition table, which might still be pointing to the lost D:. If

EASEUS can't help, maybe another program, like GPartEd, Gnome Partition

Editor, can fix that.



http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php



--

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Seasidepeter

Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:27:28 +0100, Seasidepeter wrote:

>

>> SC Tom wrote:

>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade

>>>>>> version of win7.

>>>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But

>>>>>> on installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install

>>>>>> win7.

>>>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>>>

>>>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>>>

>>>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C

>>>> drive, consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned

>>>> out all tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc

>>>> (onto an external drive!), then defragged again.

>>>>

>>>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program

>>>> still halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>>>

>>>> ?????

>>> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes.

>>> You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key

>>> stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will

>>> look at the first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and

>>> since the Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will

>>> error out. Does the installation give you a choice of which partition to

>>> install to?

>>> Check this post :

>>> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>>>

>>> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

>>> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

>> Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

>> partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

>> which my friend didn't want.

>> I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all

>> the F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

>> direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be

>> installed (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the

>> computer's OEM.

>> This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?

>

> It is possible that the D: was the recovery partition. Crazy as it sound, I

> have an HP laptop in which the recovery partition was partition D:. I

> removed the letter as soon as I saw that...

>

> I'm thinking, though, that the problem might be with the master boot record

> or the partition table, which might still be pointing to the lost D:. If

> EASEUS can't help, maybe another program, like GPartEd, Gnome Partition

> Editor, can fix that.

>

> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

>

A big thank you to all who replied in this thread- the problem is

solved. Gene was right: the OEM had "reserved" the D drive via the mbr.

And I'd mucked that up by removing D.

The answer was to use Diskpart to remove the whole of the remaining

partition (the override option) then to reformat the whole drive then

followed SC Tom's upgrade procedure - and it all worked a treat.



Thanks very much chaps - a success story.
 
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SC Tom

"Seasidepeter" wrote in message

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> Gene E. Bloch wrote:

>> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:27:28 +0100, Seasidepeter wrote:

>>

>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade

>>>>>>> version of win7.

>>>>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But

>>>>>>> on installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install

>>>>>>> win7.

>>>>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>>>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C

>>>>> drive, consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned

>>>>> out all tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc

>>>>> (onto an external drive!), then defragged again.

>>>>>

>>>>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program

>>>>> still halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>>>>

>>>>> ?????

>>>> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery

>>>> purposes. You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a

>>>> boot-up key stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation

>>>> CD/DVD will look at the first partition it sees as the place to put

>>>> itself, and since the Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the

>>>> install will error out. Does the installation give you a choice of

>>>> which partition to install to?

>>>> Check this post :

>>>> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>>>> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

>>>> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

>>> Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

>>> partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

>>> which my friend didn't want.

>>> I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all

>>> the F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

>>> direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be

>>> installed (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the

>>> computer's OEM.

>>> This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?

>>

>> It is possible that the D: was the recovery partition. Crazy as it sound,

>> I

>> have an HP laptop in which the recovery partition was partition D:. I

>> removed the letter as soon as I saw that...

>>

>> I'm thinking, though, that the problem might be with the master boot

>> record

>> or the partition table, which might still be pointing to the lost D:. If

>> EASEUS can't help, maybe another program, like GPartEd, Gnome Partition

>> Editor, can fix that.

>>

>> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

>>

> A big thank you to all who replied in this thread- the problem is solved.

> Gene was right: the OEM had "reserved" the D drive via the mbr. And I'd

> mucked that up by removing D.

> The answer was to use Diskpart to remove the whole of the remaining

> partition (the override option) then to reformat the whole drive then

> followed SC Tom's upgrade procedure - and it all worked a treat.

>

> Thanks very much chaps - a success story.



You're very welcome. Glad all is well now!

--

SC Tom



"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed

any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician."

Lt. Col. J.D. "Jeff" Cooper, USMC, Ret.
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

On Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:07:09 +0100, Seasidepeter wrote:



> Gene E. Bloch wrote:

>> On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:27:28 +0100, Seasidepeter wrote:

>>

>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>> news:RN-dnfVcBN_PKijWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>> SC Tom wrote:

>>>>>> "Seasidepeter" wrote in message

>>>>>> news:5M-dndlDoJBNjSjWnZ2dnUVZ7qydnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...

>>>>>>> Hi - I'm trying to install win 7 on my girlfriend's laptop. She

>>>>>>> currently runs Vista, and I've bought the Home Premium upgrade

>>>>>>> version of win7.

>>>>>>> She has 50 Gb of free space on a 75 Gb hard drive. Windows

>>>>>>> compatabiliuty checker said "fine, go ahead" (my paraphrasing). But

>>>>>>> on installation it says there's not enou8gh disk space to install

>>>>>>> win7.

>>>>>>> That's a pretty basic compatability check, surely?

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> How much free disk space does the bloody program need to install?

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> Anybody know please?

>>>>>> It's not trying to install to the Recovery partition, is it?

>>>>> As far as I can tell, the pc (a laptop) is set up with a single C

>>>>> drive, consisting of a single partition. I've defragmented it, cleaned

>>>>> out all tmp files etc, removed all her documents, pictures, music etc

>>>>> (onto an external drive!), then defragged again.

>>>>>

>>>>> Windows Explorer reports 51Gb free space. Yet the upgrade program

>>>>> still halts with a "not enough free space" message.

>>>>>

>>>>> ?????

>>>> Quite often, laptops will have a hidden partition for Recovery purposes.

>>>> You won't see it as a drive letter it's available from a boot-up key

>>>> stroke, usually one of the "F" keys. But an installation CD/DVD will

>>>> look at the first partition it sees as the place to put itself, and

>>>> since the Recovery partitions are only about 6 or 7GB, the install will

>>>> error out. Does the installation give you a choice of which partition to

>>>> install to?

>>>> Check this post :

>>>> http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/7850-windows-7-7100-not-enough-disk-space-error-2.html

>>>>

>>>> about 2/3 of the way down. Has Easus Partition Manager (or, I would

>>>> think, anything similar) been used on the laptop?

>>> Thanks for the response...yes, Easus PM was used to create one large

>>> partition on the C: drive - the machine came with a C: and D: partition,

>>> which my friend didn't want.

>>> I can't seem to track down a Recovery partition, despite pressing all

>>> the F keys like a deranged monkey. Running the Custom Install by booting

>>> direct from the upgrade cd puts up a message "Windows cannot be

>>> installed (to Disk 0 Partition 1). The partition was reserved by the

>>> computer's OEM.

>>> This is getting beyond me..can you point me at any way to unreserve it?

>>

>> It is possible that the D: was the recovery partition. Crazy as it sound, I

>> have an HP laptop in which the recovery partition was partition D:. I

>> removed the letter as soon as I saw that...

>>

>> I'm thinking, though, that the problem might be with the master boot record

>> or the partition table, which might still be pointing to the lost D:. If

>> EASEUS can't help, maybe another program, like GPartEd, Gnome Partition

>> Editor, can fix that.

>>

>> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

>>

> A big thank you to all who replied in this thread- the problem is

> solved. Gene was right: the OEM had "reserved" the D drive via the mbr.

> And I'd mucked that up by removing D.

> The answer was to use Diskpart to remove the whole of the remaining

> partition (the override option) then to reformat the whole drive then

> followed SC Tom's upgrade procedure - and it all worked a treat.

>

> Thanks very much chaps - a success story.



Yay!



--

Gene E. Bloch letters0x40blochg0x2Ecom
 
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