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Name: mattie
so here i am after installing vista. now i found out that my first (system partition was too small (my bad, didn't think of it ... xp didn't need all that much, ya know :-). anyway, i have my ghost image and think to myself, what the heck, use the vista dvd to delete and resize the partitions. surprise surprise, the delete/format option is unavailable for the system partition.
of course i still have my (good old, soon to be antique :-)xp cd at hand that did the job for me in the end ... but isn't there another way (than brute force) or have i forfeit the right to re-partition my hard disk once vista is installed?
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
icq 10183575
that would be one option, kurt, but what about deleting/resizing the system partiton for a clean re-installation? using the vista installation disk, the option delete/format is only available for any non-(vista)-system partition.
sure, killdisk or any win2k/xp will do the trick, but i find it strange that you can't do this with the vista dvd.
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
icq 10183575
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so far, so good ... but how come, once vista is installed on a partition, you don't have the options 'delete' and 'format' for this particular partition anymore when booting from DVD?
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
icq 10183575
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Sorry but I really have no idea only because I'm not running Vista myself (I quit the Beta program)
i_XpUser
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it ain't beta anymore ... and this is not really for my own satisfaction as i'm perfectly happy with linux ... it's rather about need-to-know :-)
p.s. ms claim that your system partition should be 15-20 GB ... with a windows managed swapfile i ran into some error messages regarding virtual memory on this 15 gb partition. ok, i took pagefile management away from windows (who needs 9GB? LOL) which solved the problem. but 15 gb is really small in vista-terms so i decided to re-install vista (or rather deploying the ghost image), this time on a larger partition but deleting your vista partition is not an option with the DVD so you need to have killdisk or a windows 2k/xp installation cd to get rid of vista.
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
icq 10183575
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jam,
The RTM announcement was made one week ago today and that release (RTM) is basically the real deal. True it might not be on the shelf yet, however; no more fine tuning is taking place on the RTM between now and when retail copies are available in stores.
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I have formatted the system partition many times while trying the various flavors of Vista. Always used the Vista boot disc.
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