25 GB? Seriously, Microsoft? What a bloated piece of crapware.

[marzer]

You're welcome

OP Should have bought a bigger SSD

No, he should've bought the exact size that he wanted.

I've been running Windows 7 in a 30gb partition since its release w/o any issues. Of course others may need more depending on their application needs. The OP can try and troubleshoot his particular issue as others suggested so that his Win7 install also comfortably accomodated in a 30gb partition.

 

[G51989]

Windows is pretty bloated OP, not sure why others here are trying to tell you otherwise.

Because Windows 7 isn't, while yes the hibernation and paging files can get large unless you delete them ( which isn't hard to do ), its about 10 gigs, which is pretty incredible considering it supports tens of thousands of hardware configurations, while OSX is nearly as large and supports? A couple dozen?

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My fault? SSDs are dead expensive and Microsoft is just sitting there on it's ass, making bloated software while Apple is working hard on making their OS take 8 GB of HDD only.

Its your fault for buying a tiny drive, 128GB is nothing. My right of college Dell laptop in 2004 had a 160gb drive. Its not Microsofts fault you cheaped out.

Microsoft supports tens of thousands of hardware configs, Apple supports about two dozen, so why is OSX so huge at 8gb? Where 7 is around 10gb?

Follow the directions other posters have been, and you can get it down under 10 gigs. And you'll be fine.

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No, he should've bought the exact size that he wanted.

I've been running Windows 7 in a 30gb partition since its release w/o any issues. Of course others may need more depending on their application needs. The OP can try and troubleshoot his particular issue as others suggested so that his Win7 install also comfortably accomodated in a 30gb partition.

128gb? I honestly don't understand how anyone could live on that. But thats just me.

And yep, you can get it to run on 30GB just fine.