From the Vista GUI interface you can only partition a HD with 3 primary and 1
extended partitions, from the command prompt you can partition 4 primary
partitions. And Vista's formatting is different from XP's and many older 3rd
party applications will wrongly report that there are disk errors.
Thanks Freddy. So, it now seems that partitioning the drive into 3 primary
partitions causes older HD tools to think there are errors that need to be
fixed. I know that DOS would only allow 1 Primary, and then the rest had to be
extended. So, this could well be a hangover from those days. thanks Freddy.
Captain,
Yes, the good lord willing and the creek don't rise. When I installed Vista
Home Premium on a new bare drive (personal home system), I didn't partition
nor format. Vista took care of that during the installation process. In
WinXP (and prior), we always had to go through the partition and format
procedure before we could install Windows. Not in Vista. It didn't ask nor
let me know what it was doing. It just did all that was necessary to
install
Vista with no intervention required, thank you. I was so surprised. I'd
not
seen that before.
--
freddy
Captain Roberts said:
I did. I used Vista to create the partitions to start with, then I
formatted them at the Vista setup stage, and one by one I installed
1. Vista Ultimate x86
2. Vista Ultimate x64
3. Server 2008 Beta 3 x86
So,everything should be ok, right?
Captain Roberts,
I don't know of anything that has changed. Use Vista to check it out and to
make the partitions and to format the partitions. Right click Computer
(formerly My Computer) and then select Manage and then select Disk
Management. In Disk Management you can view the hard drive, its partitions
and change them, etc. Let us know what you find.
partitions. Now, I get errors with partition programs saying the sizes are
incorrect. Before I "Fix" these errors, has something changed in the way Vista
allocates space with the partition tables on drives?
