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Thread ID: 79723	2007-05-30 01:29:00	Vista format - would I lose a created partition?	GhostBuster (10141)	Press F1

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554307	2007-05-30 01:29:00	I have Vista BZ on my ASUS laptop (120 gig) and comes with recovery disks . ( when re-installing vista, u have the opition to to install to 1st partition or 2 partitions or whole hard drive) What I like to know is, If I shrink the partition to say 15 Gig to make another partition/voulme? I think that's what it does? anyway if I did a format later , would that also delete the partition I created? example: C: Main partition . D: 15 gig ( I created) E: DVD Drive . any help on this would be appreciated . Thanks :)	GhostBuster (10141)
554308	2007-05-30 01:37:00	You will be able to choose which partition u wanna install it on, or format the whole drive. the vista setup is pretty good actually.	wratterus (105)
554309	2007-05-30 01:44:00	You will be able to choose which partition u wanna install it on, or format the whole drive. the vista setup is pretty good actually. Thanks for your reply wratterus. So if I was to re-install to the 1st partition only then my D: (15 gig) I created within vista would remain intact? Is that what you mean?	GhostBuster (10141)
554310	2007-05-30 02:40:00	I think so....:lol: when you install vista on a hdd with two partitions.. you can choose which partion to install it on.. or format the whole hdd. so if u want to install it on partition A, you can select partition A, them format just that partition and once vista's up and running you'll be able to acess whatever data is on parition B. Vista has a useful tool when if u wan to install it on a HDD with a microsoft OS already installed, it will give you the option to move all the data on the hdd to C:\WINDOWS.old. which makes it real easy if you have got a lot of data, and or no easy way of backing it up.:thumbs:	wratterus (105)
554311	2007-05-30 03:02:00	That's generic Windows. A recovery CD for a laptop will often be set up to restore the original factory configuration. That means that it will partition the way the factory decided it "should be". Don't necessarily rely on having any files on a modified partitioning scheme preserved in a restore. The restore script should warn you of the results of any partitioning it is abouit to do, and ask your permission to continue; it might even ask if you want to use existing partitions (which is what you want, it seems). But don't assume that it will be that nice. ;) Formatting is a different process. You tell the formatting software which partition to format. Each partition is a "disk" to the formatter. Partitioning creates such logical disks from one physical disk.	Graham L (2)
554312	2007-05-30 03:13:00	Ahh yes i didn't click to the fact that you would be installing from recovery disks.. sorry. that would be a different story all together.:dogeye: just as the post above this says....	wratterus (105)
554313	2007-05-30 03:26:00	That's generic Windows. A recovery CD for a laptop will often be set up to restore the original factory configuration. That means that it will partition the way the factory decided it "should be". Don't necessarily rely on having any files on a modified partitioning scheme preserved in a restore. The restore script should warn you of the results of any partitioning it is abouit to do, and ask your permission to continue; it might even ask if you want to use existing partitions (which is what you want, it seems). But don't assume that it will be that nice. ;) Formatting is a different process. You tell the formatting software which partition to format. Each partition is a "disk" to the formatter. Partitioning creates such logical disks from one physical disk. Thanks Graham - I will format to the 1st partition and see how that goes. I Will report back once Iv'e done it (might be helpful to others) , either today or over next couple days. also thanks to wratterus - fingers corssed. :) Hmmm might be a good idea if it works to image the drive with acronis.	GhostBuster (10141)
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