Vista - Clean Install From Upgrade Vista

Yes, You could do it that way by creating an extended partition for the other 4.

It would be a lot easier to create 4 standard partitions through Disk Management though if you do not mind having only 4 partitions total.

So if I am understanding the proceedure correctly on a clean install what I would want to do is when I get to the Format Drive step.

1. Create a Partition thats 200 gig and format that

2. Creat a 2nd partition thats 800 gig and format that

3 then select the 2nd partition and click the Extend option to break it up into 4 logical drives?

In the alternative, if I just go with 4 partitions.

on a clean install I would want to format the entire drive. Do the dbl install since I'm using Vista upgrade DVD then in disk mngment

1. Shrink the 1st partition down to say 200 gig.
2. right click on the 800 gigs of unalocated space
3. select "New simple Volume option and set the size to 200 gigs.
4 Lather rinse and repeat till I've used up all the space?

My main concern is I have a shared folder my room mate uses to copy stuff to/from his computer to my XP system and right now its on my G: drive and I was worried about changing its location on my system so he has access.

Bratboy,

Almost, but you can only have 4 partitions total for a hard drive.

1. Format and do a clean install of Vista on entire drive.
2. Use Disk Management to Shrink C: by say 750 GB (768000 MB) for it to remain at 250GB.
3. Rinse and repeat to shrink the 750 GB partition to break it up into say 3 even 250 GB (25600 MB) partitions.


If your share folder does not stay keep the G: drive letter, you should be able to change it back to G: . If another drive is using G: , then just change it to another drive letter first. This tutorial will help show you how to if needed.

Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Does deviding the drive into 4 equal parts sound like the best way or should I consider a diffrent size for the Vista drive and then split the rest into 3 other drives using up whats left? Since I have an HD DVR card I'm planning to use the extra space on C for the "recorded Shows" document folder seems like a good idea If I do it in 4 equal parts then I reckon I could keep Vista and apps on the main one, use one for music & Video files, one for games and such and the last for the Shared folder and misc and backup stuff.

It doesn't matter. You can use any size your like for each partition. I just used 250 GB as an example. Vista should have at least 60 GB though. When you shrink a partition, just remember it's 1024 MB per 1 GB.

Well Im glad I decided to hold off on my friends offer for an OEM Vista home premium SP1 upgrade. I got an email from MS today and as a student they had an offer to get Office Ultimate for 91% off, approx $57 plus $13 for a DVD backup. When I went to the site I was also offered Vista Ultimate SP1 upgrade also for the same price. Their full versions not Academic copies to boot. Plus my new CC had a deal where on my first purchase with it I'd get a $50 credit to my card so I got both including backup DVD's for a total of $100. Figured for $50 each they were both worth it.

Anyway its only available to students but here is a link to the start page where you confirm you qualify for it in case anyone else is interested that was in my "
Microsoft Download Notifications: October 31, 2008" email

http://co1piltwb.partners.extranet.m...8-2bc10cc6ca26
"The ultimate steal: Students save up to 91% off E.R.P. on Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007. (Valid e-mail address at an educational institution required.)"

That's a great deal Bratboy. Thank you for sharing the opportunity for other students to take advantage of this deal to.

Shawn

No problem, like I said tho its only avail to students so to qualify you have to have a school email address that ends with .edu but it does seem like a good deal.

Hi Brink,
I would be obliged if you could give your opinion for the following:
1. Dell provided those of us buying a new computer with XP in early [Jan]2007, with a promotion "VISTA Express upgrade DVD" as and when VISTA OS become availabe. It consists of two DVD disks-a Dell's VISTA express upgrade DVD & a Dell's Windows Vista upgrade assistant DVD. At the time, I first did a clean install of the VISTA OS as you have mentioned-so called "Double installation" of the vista rather than from XP to VISTA. [Very much talked about at the time as Paul Thurrott's technique]
However later I learnt from Dell forum that I could just do a clean single install of the Vista OS using Dell's VISTA Express Upgrade DVD without the need for the double installation. This I did and worked. I am not refering to retail version of the upgrade vista dvd.
My question is now I have had the Vista SP-1 automatically installed through the WU on my mechine. Can I still do a clean install of the Vista OS using my Dell's express VISTA upgrade DVD?
Kind Regards
Snow

Hi Snow,

Yes, you will still be able to do a clean install with your Vista DVD. You would just have to reinstall the SP1 and other WUs afterwards again though.

To make it easier, you might download the standalone Vista SP1 (32-bit) installation file and copy it to DVD. This way it would you could install it a lot faster from DVD instead of WU after installing Vista.

Five language version:
Download details: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Five Language Standalone (KB936330)

All language version:
Download details: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 All Language Standalone (KB936330)

Hope this helps,
Shawn