Hello there, I am new to the forum but I've been having such a peculiar problem that I felt the need to ask/post.
I just got a rMBP and installed Windows 7 Pro (x64) with Boot Camp. I have done 3 wipes/installations (did not want to deal with Winclone and such when the installation only takes ~30mins) of it now because of space allocation issues; I did not want to allocate too much space because of my 256gb SSD.
My whole goal was to get ~15gb of free hard drive space on my windows side. I started off by partitioning 30gb and after installation w/ Apple drivers had 3gb left. I then stepped up to a 40gb partition and after the drivers had 6gb. Then I went up to 52gb (to give me 160gb even on my mac HD) and was left with only 11gb free after drivers. So the break down:
30gb partition: 3gb free
40gb partition: 6gb free
52gb partition: 11gb free
None of this seems to make sense (sorry I did not take statistics pre-driver installation); do the Apple drivers somehow fluff up in size depending on how much hard drive space it sees you have?
On a different, but similar note are there good ways to make the installation smaller?
Thanks! And sorry for such a confusing post...
I just got a rMBP and installed Windows 7 Pro (x64) with Boot Camp. I have done 3 wipes/installations (did not want to deal with Winclone and such when the installation only takes ~30mins) of it now because of space allocation issues; I did not want to allocate too much space because of my 256gb SSD.
My whole goal was to get ~15gb of free hard drive space on my windows side. I started off by partitioning 30gb and after installation w/ Apple drivers had 3gb left. I then stepped up to a 40gb partition and after the drivers had 6gb. Then I went up to 52gb (to give me 160gb even on my mac HD) and was left with only 11gb free after drivers. So the break down:
30gb partition: 3gb free
40gb partition: 6gb free
52gb partition: 11gb free
None of this seems to make sense (sorry I did not take statistics pre-driver installation); do the Apple drivers somehow fluff up in size depending on how much hard drive space it sees you have?
On a different, but similar note are there good ways to make the installation smaller?
Thanks! And sorry for such a confusing post...