If you mean dividing a new hard disk into partitions for the first time, I doubt it. It's nearly impossible as I think. This requires user intervension. I think it IS possible. Unless you mean _multiple_ partitions, then you're right. Windows Setup can automatically partition and format hard disks: if set to autopartition: -if it finds a new (unpartitioned/unformatted) it will make one big partition on it -windows installs to the first hard disk, if it isn't empty it installs to first one that's empty -if there's only one hard disk, with one or multiple partitions which aren't empty, it will reformat the first partition and install windows to it. I'm quite sure of this, but perhaps it's better if someone could verify it?