How much storage to install windows 8

[morgoth780]

this article http://lifehacker.com/5840387/how-to-dual+boot-windows-7-and-windows-8-side-by-side
says i need a 20gb partition. unfortunately, my max partition size is 19.34 gb. is that going to be enough? i want to install the 64bit version

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Should still work!

 

[Pyree]

My installation only use 14GB, so I think you should be fine.

 

[Rizlla]

This article also suggests 20GB but the developer version I downloaded used +- 15 GB.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Developer-Preview-System-Requirements-222306.shtml

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

You can reduce some storage issues by redirecting %variables% to another partition. %temp%, ...

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment-variables-windows-vista-7.htm

 

[morgoth780]

Best answer selected by morgoth780.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

This topic has been closed by Area51reopened