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During installation of Vista, does the installer give you a chance to
partition your drives for Vista, or must you do this beforehand with a
third-party program?
 
Yes the Vista installer will give you the opportunity to choose the drive
and partition and to delete/create partitions.

When the installer gets to the screen where it allows you to choose the
partition, just click on the 'Advanced' tab. You'll see the options there.
 
Thanks a lot. I was really scared that after the "choose install location"
list, I would have no oppurtunity to go back and create partitions.

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Yes the Vista installer will give you the opportunity to choose the drive
and partition and to delete/create partitions.

When the installer gets to the screen where it allows you to choose the
partition, just click on the 'Advanced' tab. You'll see the options there.
 
HDR, it didn't. does it come AFTER the screen where you choose Custom or
Upgrade Install, or before? Because right after the screen where you choose
your disk, it starts doing the Install.
 
I believe that drive is a SATA drive. You may have to load a driver for your
SATA controller. On the screen you referenced there is an option to "Load
driver". You will need the driver for your controller on a CD, floppy disk,
USB drive, etc.. Vista can't see the drive because it doesn't have a driver
for the drive controller.
 
I think someone here might have the wrong end of the stick....
caffieneaddict.. are you booting from the vista DVD or installing from
within XP?

From within XP there is no option given to partition your drive, only of
where you want the installation to go, so you must already have your
partitions set up. If there is a way to do this i want to know how...

Booting from the dvd i am under the impression that the options are the same
as for XP. You can create/delete partitions for installation to, however you
cannot resize existing ones. I have also read on here that if you boot from
the DVD then you might end up with vista showing as installed on c:\, however
when under XP vista will show up on a different disk altogether. This may or
may not cause you problems.

The best way is to get hold of partitioning software such as partition magic
(and there are some free ones around as well but none come to mind) and
resize/set up the partitions before you start the installation. If you do
this, create a new Primary partition and format it NTFS before you start the
installation.

Hope this helps
 
This poster has been advised by both Chad Harris and myself in different
threads on which freeware partition suites are viable along with some
instruction on how to partition a drive.
 
CrAy-Z said:
I think someone here might have the wrong end of the stick....
caffieneaddict.. are you booting from the vista DVD or installing from
within XP?

From within XP there is no option given to partition your drive, only
of where you want the installation to go, so you must already have
your partitions set up. If there is a way to do this i want to know
how...

Booting from the dvd i am under the impression that the options are
the same as for XP. You can create/delete partitions for
installation to, however you cannot resize existing ones. I have
also read on here that if you boot from the DVD then you might end up
with vista showing as installed on c:\, however when under XP vista
will show up on a different disk altogether. This may or may not
cause you problems.

The best way is to get hold of partitioning software such as
partition magic (and there are some free ones around as well but none
come to mind) and resize/set up the partitions before you start the
installation. If you do this, create a new Primary partition and
format it NTFS before you start the installation.
Click to expand...

You may be right. He sounds very confused. From this thread I assumed he was
installing Vista on a new drive. Reading the other threads he started it's
not very clear what he's trying to accomplish.
 
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