partitioning disk

Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this manually?

"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message

Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this manually?

You must do it manually with a product like Partition Magic.
No offense, but if you consider yourself a newbie and don't know how to partition your drive, I STRONGLY recommend you do NOT install Vista. The beta is intended ONLY for experienced computer professionals and should only be installed on a test machine, not your main machine.
It will, almost guaranteed, crash your system and cause irrecoverable data loss. There is no way to get XP back once you have done it.
DON'T DO IT.
Tom

Scroll down just a wee bit. Your post from 4 hours ago was answered.
"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this manually?

You can use a second hard disk to install into (I'm using an external hard disk :) ).
"CaffieneAddict" wrote:

Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this manually?

If it is a raw disk and not the system disk, Vista Setup does contain the partitioning tools under Advanced Options.
"Tom Scales" wrote in message

"CaffieneAddict" wrote in message Hi. I am a newbie and I do NOT know how to partition my disk for Windows Vista. Does the Installer for Vista do this automatically, or must I do this manually?
You must do it manually with a product like Partition Magic.
No offense, but if you consider yourself a newbie and don't know how to partition your drive, I STRONGLY recommend you do NOT install Vista. The beta is intended ONLY for experienced computer professionals and should only be installed on a test machine, not your main machine.
It will, almost guaranteed, crash your system and cause irrecoverable data loss. There is no way to get XP back once you have done it.
DON'T DO IT.
Tom