Thread: Free Space After Lion Install?

As posted on another thread I intend to install the final version of Lion on my Lenovo S10e [School Laptop] (If it doesn't work, I will simply fall back to Snow Leopard until I find a way )

Anyways, I am thinking of swapping out the Hard drive for an old 40GB that was in an older Toshiba Laptop, so I can use the 160GB as an External HDD, and the 40GB and the internal one.

Back to the point... How much space do you think I will have left after I install a clean version of Lion onto the Hard Drive? I won't be doing any Video or Image processing on the computer, it will be used for things like Email, Skype, Facetime, iMessage [Messages for Mac] and Web Browsing. I might also do some Word Processing, but you know, who doesn't?

Thanks in Advance!

A Lion installation usually takes a little over 7 GB. It tells you that when you have accepted its agreements and are about to install the OS. Choose the customize button just before you install the OS for the exact amount of space it will need.

Is this 40 GB HDD IDE or Sata??

Originally Posted by hulkintosh

A Lion installation usually takes a little over 7 GB. It tells you that when you have accepted its agreements and are about to install the OS. Choose the customize button just before you install the OS for the exact amount of space it will need.

Is this 40 GB HDD IDE or Sata??

Ahh okay, thank you! Forgot that it told me how much space would be taken up... Last time I did a Hackintosh was about 3 years ago.

And it's a SATA drive