


I'm not sure about the install.wim file, the.

You do this, you will end up with about 15gb free space when done. You down minimally, but it works for me (my drive is only 40gb): right-click on the icon for your hard drive in the computer header, and select the "compress drive" option to gain more space, under the advanced tab. Other files that can eat up your drive space are the temporary files, and also if you have hibernating or sleeping enabled on your computer, those features will eat disk space too. Useful if you are in the act of debugging your programming. Have you tried disabling the error logs and event logging services? By default, these are active in the background after each install, and are really only Your c:\ drive is half-taken by windows itself, Vista needing about 10gb to install and run.
