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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.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message

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?

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.
"HDRDTD" wrote: 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.

Yes it comes after.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message

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.

You mean this screen? Because i'm using a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB drive and those options under the "choose where you want to install Vista" don't appear to me. Maybe you cant partition Seagate 7200.7's??
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistainstallused/index.htm (Scroll down to PART 3)
"HDRDTD" wrote:
Yes it comes after.

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.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
CaffieneAddict wrote:

You mean this screen? Because i'm using a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB drive and those options under the "choose where you want to install Vista" don't appear to me. Maybe you cant partition Seagate 7200.7's??
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistainstallused/index.htm (Scroll down to PART 3)
"HDRDTD" wrote:
Yes it comes after.

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
"Kerry Brown" wrote:

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.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
CaffieneAddict wrote: You mean this screen? Because i'm using a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB drive and those options under the "choose where you want to install Vista" don't appear to me. Maybe you cant partition Seagate 7200.7's??
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistainstallused/index.htm (Scroll down to PART 3)
"HDRDTD" wrote:
Yes it comes after.

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" wrote in message

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
"Kerry Brown" wrote:
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.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
CaffieneAddict wrote: You mean this screen? Because i'm using a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB drive and those options under the "choose where you want to install Vista" don't appear to me. Maybe you cant partition Seagate 7200.7's??
http://www.windowsvista.windowsreinstall.com/vistainstallused/index.htm (Scroll down to PART 3)
"HDRDTD" wrote:
Yes it comes after.

CrAy-Z wrote:

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.

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.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User www.VistaHelp.ca