Vista Needs A 20Gig Harddisk!

Ξ June 15th, 2006 | → | ∇ |

I mean, whow come on here! I bought an exceptionally cheap, 18gig U320, 15k SCSI harddisk to install Vista Beta 2 x64 on to and I get to the installation screen (after waiting 20 minutes on a black and white “loading” screen) and it then tells me it needs 20Gig of free space to install Vista to! What the hell!?

Basically to install Vista from a standard 4.5Gig DVD it copys the (whole) thing across, decompresses it and then installs it from there. So instead of using a harddisk that could have made my next gen computing experience like shit off a stick, I’ve been resigned to using an 80gig 7200rpm SATA disk. Boooorrrring.

Why is installing an OS always a hassle. You can never just pop the disk in and off you go, it’s always one problem or another stopping you or needing you to restart/find drivers/fix issues. It takes at least a dozen goes (over a period of time, not all at once) before you learn how to do it first time and get it absoultely stable without having to mess about. To me, that’s still not an entirely intuitive computing experience. I suppose Apple have one up again, in a way.