[nicke261192]

Installing & Shrinking Windows 7 Installation Guide

If you have a Dell Mini 9 or 10 and your running on an SSD which is 4GB, 8GB or even 16GB then you may be stuck when trying to install Windows 7 and still having a decent amount of free space to...

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[d70]

hmm mine came out 6.7 GB. followed the instructions by the letter. what the? My ultimate ISO is from MSDN. any ideas?

[Mike_Smith]

Confirmed. This does not work. I tested with a retail ISO and the install took about 5GB's, yet all the contents on the flash drive amount to about to 2GB. wtf? Help someone

[Julzism]

I did the same shrunk files down to 1.78gb after install 7.25gb, I am using RTM of win7 home premium.

[WolfKeeper]

I followed the guide and have about 3GB free on a 8GB factory STEC drive.

[Mini_Maniac]

Took around 5.5 GB on my Mini 9 too..

---------- Post added at 08:10 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:42 AM ----------

Originally Posted by Mini_Maniac

Took around 5.5 GB on my Mini 9 too..

I think the culprit here is the Paging File..once i disabled that...reclaimed 2GB+ !! Wohooooo!

[john.woody]

Mine used 5.2 gig, but thats a lot better than the 8.5 installing the full OS. With all my bits on I'm up to 7.5 out of 14.2.
Happy Days

[amathophobia]

no need to install all of waik. here you go extract to vlite dir.[COLOR="Silver"]

[Cygnes]

Just made an ISO of my disc and we will see what happens

[indelible]

i installed w7 ultimate with the OP's method but wifi doesn't work. it shows that i have wifi but if i try to enable it, it says enabled but it stays disabled. anybody know a fix for this? i installed the mini 10 wifi switch too.

[MonthOLDpickle]

I can't even boot off the usb..it shrank the installer to about 2Gbs also. I know the USB is bootable and I have installed W7 on it before..just trying to shrink the size of the installation.


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Using diskpart.exe after 4 attempts to make the bootable USB, I have been successful. Will report after installing the install.

Well I freed up a total of 2GB so now instead of 20GB free I have 23.7GB..but mouse doesn't work -.- and other stuff -.-

Guess soem other people will have better luck than me =)