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Originally Posted by Mr_Draco
A 500 gig commercial hard drive (which contains 499,289,948,160 bytes) is actually 465 gigs (499,289,948,160 / 1,073,741,824) before being formatted and before anything is installed (I looked it up). Windows 8 requires 20 gigs and it uses another 18 gigs for various programs it installs taking up a total of 38 gigs. This means a 500 gig commercial hard drive after having just the OS and no other programs installed will have 427 gigs left over for the user.
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Sorry you are correct about the size of a disk being smaller. I forgot about the whole convert to 1024, I was thinking of a disk space in terms of humans and not computers. But as for the install I have successfully installed windows 8 and 8.1 in a Hyper-V machine hosted in a Windows 8.1 Box with 25Gbs of allocated space. This not only installed the base image but also office 13, several other desktop apps, and several RDBMS clients along with their files.
Here is a fresh install of Windows 8 on a 320Gb drive I just did on a older laptop of mine. This is just the install of a base 8 with all apps installed and an install of iTunes. As you can see the OS is only using 14Gb of the boot volume and 500Mb recovery in the other partition
