Boot Camp Windows 7 download help?

So i just used boot camp to download windows 7 onto my macbook air, and everything worked out fine… or so i thought. The windows 7 runs smoothly and everything, and the reason I wanted Windows on my mac is so that I could play online games which like 90% of them don't work on mac… So i go to download a game I have been wanting to play, and it says I need to download adobe flash first. So when I go to download adobe flash, it says there is an error, and that I have no available disk space in the C drive !!(i am pretty sure it was the c drive)... so ***?!?! I just gave 20 GB to windows 7 and it says i have NO AVAILABLE DISK SPACE?!! I am so confused… so please help…. why after i just partitioned 20 GB to windows 7 on my mac computer does it say that there is no available disk space?

20gb way too small, if you're going to game you should give windows at least 60gb
also disable hibernation and the page file (google) on your air after getting windows installed

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