Warp 64 V.2, Clean Vista x64 Install, No space available.

[joshluv33]

I was definitely excited to load up Windows Vista x64 on this drive. I will upgrade to Windows 7 when it is released. I did a clean install of windows onto the drive, loaded the appropriate drivers for the motherboard, and went to install my first program. That is when I noticed the problem initially. It told me I had insufficient space to install the program. I thought this was weird since I hadn't installed anything else yet and it was a 64 gb drive. I thought the vista install would take like 6 gigs or something, but when I checked the drive stats it said I only had 700 mb of free space left of the entire drive. Has anyone else had this trouble? I went searching for all of this used space. I found 13 gigs being used in the AppData->Temp folder and a few gigs when I did disk cleanup. Now it says there is 39 gigs used still on the clean install. Any suggestions? Could the drive be bad somehow?

[AGlobalThreatsK]

Find where the rest of the space went.

Do you still have the correct capacity showing for the drive?

You can Right-Click My Computer, go to Manage, then click Disk Management.

Perhaps there is another partition setup or system restore is using too much space. I recommend turning off System Restore, especially for SSDs.

These are the tweaks I recommend for ALL SSDs:

Disable indexing = uncheck indexing from drive properties + disable the indexing service
Turn off system restore
Turn off hibernation
Turn off the paging file (Some programs may require this, it is recommended to put a paging file on a HDD or use a ramdisk to put it into extra RAM)

Vista/7: Disable Scheduled Defragmentation

Type into cmd prompt:
fsutil behavior set disable8dot3 1
fsutil behavior set disablelastaccess 1

Go to Device Manager
Click the + By Disk Drives
Right-click on the SSD and go to Properties, then to the Policies tab
Make sure write-caching is on (power outage may cause loss of data..)
Vista/7: Check 2nd box for Advanced Performance
XP: place dskcache in C:, open cmd and type c:\dskcache +p c:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
Double-click the DisablePagingExecutive entry and change to 1 (If not already)
Repeat for LargeSystemCache, by changing to 1
Set SecondLevelDataCache to whatever your L2 cache for ur CPU is. EDIT IN DECIMAL MODE!!!
If you have 1MB - 1024, 2MB - 2048, 3MB - 3072, 4MB - 4096, 6MB - 6144
If you have L3 cache you can skip the above^ step, it will not make a noticeable difference

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\PrefetchParameters
right click Enableprefetcher...hit modify and change 3 to 0 and hit OK
EnableSuperfetch change to 0

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem.
Edit NtfsDisable8dot3nameCreation from 0 to 1 (Should be already done if you did the fsutil cmds)
Edit NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate from 0 to 1 (Should be already done if you did the fsutil cmds)

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib
Add a new DWORD Value named DisablePerformanceCounters
Set the value of DisablePerformanceCounters to 1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction
Modify "Enable" which is a "REG_SZ".. modify this from Y to N