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**Ivramire** · 03-23-2009, 06:55 PM

Just asking in case someone might be in the know.

I'm going to be shortly reformatting my laptop and reinstalling Vista. Stupid Mass Storage Controller decided to disappear

Anyway, I noticed in previous installations that during setup it asked me to decide on a certain amount of GB, I'm assuming this is to decide how big it should make the partition that Vista would install into. My questions are

*is the default Windows disk-management utility good enough for the task? Should I get some other software?
*How big should I set the first partition?
*Should I make more than two partitions?
*After installing, should I immediately partition the disk and then install programs? Not quite sure how it works.

Thanks for any reply.

EDIT: going to sleep now. I'll just go ahead and format if I don't know better by morning.

03-23-2009, 06:55 PM	#1
Ivramire Where shall we wander? Posts: 3,666	Partitioning Just asking in case someone might be in the know. I'm going to be shortly reformatting my laptop and reinstalling Vista. Stupid Mass Storage Controller decided to disappear Anyway, I noticed in previous installations that during setup it asked me to decide on a certain amount of GB, I'm assuming this is to decide how big it should make the partition that Vista would install into. My questions are is the default Windows disk-management utility good enough for the task? Should I get some other software? How big should I set the first partition? Should I make more than two partitions? After installing, should I immediately partition the disk and then install programs? Not quite sure how it works. Thanks for any reply. EDIT: going to sleep now. I'll just go ahead and format if I don't know better by morning. Last edited by Ivramire; 03-23-2009 at 08:01 PM..