Bootcamp full right after Windows 7 install?

[GP20]

I dedicated 40GB to the bootcamp drive, and right after the windows 7 pro install, the drive is almost full with about 1.6GB left. This can't be normal, can it? Am I doing anything wrong?

I checked the windows system file sizes and it seems to be only about 13GB. So what's making the entire bootcamp drive full?

 

[xcodeSyn]

I dedicated 40GB to the bootcamp drive, and right after the windows 7 pro install, the drive is almost full with about 1.6GB left. This can't be normal, can it? Am I doing anything wrong?

I checked the windows system file sizes and it seems to be only about 13GB. So what's making the entire bootcamp drive full?

Read the post #3 in this link to see if the same things apply to your case. Also OS X and Windows use different measurement of GB, decimal vs. binary. So 40GB in OS X is more like 37.2 GB (40 x 0.93) in Windows. Something to think about when deciding the partition size in Boot Camp Assistant.

 

[jenzjen]

I dedicated 40GB to the bootcamp drive, and right after the windows 7 pro install, the drive is almost full with about 1.6GB left. This can't be normal, can it? Am I doing anything wrong?

I checked the windows system file sizes and it seems to be only about 13GB. So what's making the entire bootcamp drive full?

If you have lots of ram, disable hibernation in windows, it takes up the same amount as your ram ie 8gb ram is an 8gb hibernation file