What do I do with my partition?

I recently completed the Dell clean install on my XPS 1330 however I don't think I used the partition correctly. Will someone tell me what to do with it after the clean install? Right now there is nothing on my partition and before this I know my computer used it for something. Do I install a separate copy of windows on this to boot from?

 

Well you need to have a copy of windows installed in order to use your computer. What to do with the partitions can be decided when you install the windows...Or maybe Linux.

 

I don’t understand your question, can you elaborate more? Are you asking how to partition the disk in to several sections ?

 

i think hes talking about the recovery partition he wiped out

@ phoenix man your sig is too big it messes up the forums in my browser

 

so after wiping things out I should have installed windows to the smaller partition (10gb) and not to the 150 gb partition....?

 

Depends on your needs, if you will install more programs or games later you would need more than 10Gb, I would say 1/3 of the partition, 50Gb.

 

Really ? My sig is 778 pixels wide, with the left user info panel (name, post count etc..) total width is under 1000 pixels. I checked this particular thread under 800x600 (standard) all the way upto 1680x1050 (wide) , everything looks fine in IE 7, FireFox 2 and Opera 9. What browser / resolution are you using ? Can you PM a screen shot ?

 

It looks fine to me, too. He must be using an old browser or his display settings aren't right.

 

@OP: If that was formerly your recovery partition, you can probably delete that partition and extend your primary to take the whole HD volume. You can do this with Gparted.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/