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    Windows 7 Clean Install on Studio 1555 Help

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Unoriginal Name, Oct 30, 2009.

  1. Unoriginal Name

    Unoriginal Name Notebook Geek

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    I got my Dell Windows disk yesterday and I would like to do a clean install. I would like to do 2 partitions....one for the OS at 150 GB and the remaining space in another partition for things like music, pictures, movies....etc.

    I was able to delete all the partitions that originally came with the 1555 so that there is one big Disk O Unallocated Space.

    I then clicked new to make a partition for the OS. I set it to be 150 GB when I did this it also created another partition at 100 MB. So now I have:
    Disk 0 Partition 1: System Reserved Total Size 100 MB Free Space 86 MB Type System
    Disk 0 Partition 2 Total Size 146.4 GB Free Space 146.4 GB Type Primary
    Disk 0 Unallocated Space Total Size 319.3 GB Free Space 319.3 GB

    Is this right for what I want to do? Is this the way it should be set up? What is this Disk 0 Partition 1?

    Thanks!
     
    Unoriginal Name, Oct 30, 2009
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  2. chewyeong90

    chewyeong90 Notebook Evangelist

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    Disk 0 means it's the first HDD, if you have more than 1 HDD, you will get Disk 1 , Disk 2 etc etc

    Partition 1, as stated, is the system's reserved total size. It is used to store system files. Partion 2 is the one you have made. And the rest is unallocated. I'm not sure whether you have to allocate all to partition 3 but I think you're good to go.
     
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  3. Unoriginal Name

    Unoriginal Name Notebook Geek

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    Thanks chewy.

    The partition 1 wound up going away after the install was finished. I now have just two partitions one for the OS and apps and the other for data just like I wanted.

    Thanks again!
     
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