14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has finally launched Windows 8.1 Preview, so most Windows 8 adopters are now getting ready to install this first major update for their operating system.
According to the official FAQ published by Microsoft after the opening BUILD keynote, you need 16 GB of free space if you want to install the 32-bit version of the operating system and up to 20 GB for the 64-bit release.
Paradoxically, some of our computers can’t be updated to Windows 8.1 Preview because of insufficient hard disk space, even though some have more than 50 GB of free space.
Here are all system requirements for Windows 8.1 Preview, as they have been provided to us by Microsoft:
Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) Free hard disk space: 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) Graphics card: MicrosoftDirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM driver
As far as Windows RT is concerned, the Windows 8.1 Preview update requires 10 GB of free storage space.