How large is the partition required by Vista?

when my friend and general do not use Windows list to as my default operating system but I am pretty sure it will take more than five GB of hard disk space. For it is better that if you're installing this the then keep another five GB of space free for the operating system to swap files. That means if you're going to install a lot of software is then you should keep the space in such a way that you have almost 5 GB of the disk space always empty for that particular partition want to work properly.

I still use xp in my system. I have read somewhere that vista need 20 gb of hard disk for installation. I only have 80 gb hard disk. It will be better to buy a new hard for me inorder to use vista.

I'm still using XP, heheI've assembled a new system - AMD 4800+, SATA Burner, 320GB SATA 2 HDD, still at 1GB though but runs at 800MHz. Put in an old DVD-ROM, you know me, being thrifty here, hahaahaI hooked up my old system to my TV outside as it has a S-Video Output so I can download movies with 2 systems. Oh, you would have figured out by now that the system outside is also connected to the internet ( through LAN that is so I can transfer my movies from inside to the system outside as well )

HI friend - I don't have partition right now and I was using just drive C for my laptop vista. I have 54.8 GB capacity. Have a nice day.

OS partition size is 30 GB of which 12 GB is used directly by Vista. Other applications take up about 5-6 GB. SO I think 30GB would be sufficient for loading Vista

U need min of 15 gb free space to install vista... Howerver it gonna occupy 5 gb only..... 1gb will be allocated to pagefile.sys....