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    New Barebone...Divide HD & instal vista

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by icehell, Sep 24, 2008.

  1. icehell

    icehell Notebook Evangelist

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    best program to divide New HD and how many partitions recommended?

    how much volume windows vista need from hard drive?
     
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    You can use the vista installation program to partition the drive. If you're set on using something else... you can use GParted ( http://gparted.sourceforge.net/). If Vista is your only OS, I'd do just one partition.

    No tips for installing Vista... it's pretty much just "next next next," just make sure you have the drivers you need.
     
    Hep!, Sep 24, 2008
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  3. Andy

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    Vista will be fine with 60-80GB.

    You can make partitions, and install the OS on the 1st partition, because access/seek times and read/write rates are much better on the outer edge of the platters/disks.
     
    Andy, Sep 24, 2008
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    its 250 GB hard drive.......its impossible to make one partition!! ......can not recover data beside games need to refresh OS from time to time.
    what about partition magic?
     
    icehell, Sep 24, 2008
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    What about it? It doesn't matter what partitioning program you use.
     
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    Er... then I agree with Andy. But I think it's silly when people partition a drive and make one partition for software and the other for data. Just organize your files properly.
     
    Hep!, Sep 25, 2008
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