Partitioning Disk?

Posted: 07-02-2006, 12:53 AM

CaffieneAddict

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Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows
Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this
manually?

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Tom Scales

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Posted: 07-02-2006, 01:00 AM

"CaffieneAddict" <CaffieneAddict@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows
> Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do
> this
> manually?

You must do it manually with a product like Partition Magic.

No offense, but if you consider yourself a newbie and don't know how to
partition your drive, I STRONGLY recommend you do NOT install Vista. The
beta is intended ONLY for experienced computer professionals and should only
be installed on a test machine, not your main machine.

It will, almost guaranteed, crash your system and cause irrecoverable data
loss. There is no way to get XP back once you have done it.

DON'T DO IT.

Tom

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Mark D. VandenBerg

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Posted: 07-02-2006, 01:02 AM

Scroll down just a wee bit. Your post from 4 hours ago was answered.

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Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows
Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this
manually?

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Posted: 07-02-2006, 10:28 AM

You can use a second hard disk to install into (I'm using an external hard
disk

).

"CaffieneAddict" wrote:

> Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows
> Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this
> manually?

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Colin Barnhorst

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Posted: 07-03-2006, 12:59 AM

If it is a raw disk and not the system disk, Vista Setup does contain the
partitioning tools under Advanced Options.

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>
> "CaffieneAddict" <CaffieneAddict@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:534CFFFC-E501-4E4F-A917-E93615188C24@microsoft.com...
>> Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows
>> Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do
>> this
>> manually?
>
> You must do it manually with a product like Partition Magic.
>
> No offense, but if you consider yourself a newbie and don't know how to
> partition your drive, I STRONGLY recommend you do NOT install Vista. The
> beta is intended ONLY for experienced computer professionals and should
> only be installed on a test machine, not your main machine.
>
> It will, almost guaranteed, crash your system and cause irrecoverable data
> loss. There is no way to get XP back once you have done it.
>
> DON'T DO IT.
>
> Tom
>

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