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| Thread ID: 119979 | 2011-08-19 09:20:00 | Setting up new hard drive. | Driftwood (5551) | Press F1 |
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| 1224500 | 2011-08-19 09:20:00 | Task for tomorrow is to fit a new 500GB had drive & install win7 64. Question: As I want the drive to be partitioned, one for the os & the other for storage. Would it be best to slave the drive to another system first & set it up with Easeus Partition Master or use win7 to do it during the installation. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1224501 | 2011-08-19 09:36:00 | Personally, ( and this is maybe only me) I would install Windows first on the drive, make sure its all working first. Then shrink the drive down and create a new Partition. I always boot from a CD to change partitions, find they hardly ever fail, where as sometimes on the odd occasion changing within windows can have problems. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1224502 | 2011-08-19 09:42:00 | So you would use the win7 software? | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1224503 | 2011-08-19 10:15:00 | I actually use either paragon partition Manager heres the ISO to make the CD (www.box.net) or Acronis Disk Director. edited; cant remember if that one works on a 64bit -- have to test it out. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1224504 | 2011-08-19 13:05:00 | If you're doing a clean install on a blank drive then setting up the partitions during Windows install would probably be the easiest way. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1224505 | 2011-08-19 14:16:00 | If you're doing a clean install on a blank drive then setting up the partitions during Windows install would probably be the easiest way. +1 I don't see the point in doing the install then repartitioning. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1224506 | 2011-08-19 14:23:00 | Win7 puts a 100 meg partition on and then followed by C:. I did it just a few days ago. I then shrunk the C: drive and put D: in the unallocated space. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1224507 | 2011-08-19 20:41:00 | I'd just partition it during the install. | pctek (84) | ||
| 1224508 | 2011-08-20 00:20:00 | Thank you for your advice. New drive is in & win7 installed. Will do partition later. The performance index has gone from 5.7 to 5.9 just by changing the drive. Still on the win7 drivers too. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1224509 | 2011-08-20 00:27:00 | Win7 puts a 100mb partition on it if its Ultimate. I use Pro. Its not on this. If you dont want it anyway, make the partitions bigger. Then setup cant create it. Some systems wont boot if it creates the 100mb partition. I think Win7 thinks its bootable (after you install Win7). And tries to boot from it, it goes round in circles. And you'll never get into windows Last time, I tried Ultimate, I killed the 100mb partition by making the partitions bigger |
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