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Todzilla · 11-21-2008, 09:33 AM

Just got a nice new Dell laptop with a 250G drive.

I want to partition the drive into:
50GB - System and Apps
200GB - Data

It's new, so no biggie to wipe the standard Dell install.

Do I format the drive from scratch and specify partitions?

Or is there a way to just partition the existing disk and reinstall OS and Apps?

Thanks in Advance,

Todzilla

11-21-2008, 09:33 AM	#1 (permalink)
Todzilla Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Win XP SP3	Newbie: Format first? or Partition first? Just got a nice new Dell laptop with a 250G drive. I want to partition the drive into: 50GB - System and Apps 200GB - Data It's new, so no biggie to wipe the standard Dell install. Do I format the drive from scratch and specify partitions? Or is there a way to just partition the existing disk and reinstall OS and Apps? Thanks in Advance, Todzilla