Spunge Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 This is what I see when performing a clean install on my box...Sorry about the quality but you can just make out 3 drives, the first has 1 pimary extended with 2 logical partitions.Trying to emulate this with VMware...(Formating and partitioning with PowerQuest8)I see this (only 2 physical drives)...when performing a clean install on the VM even though all 5 drives are present after installation.Is this just a VMware 'thing' or am I missing something?Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 why r u emulating? just install it to a 1-2gb virtual disk. then use the shared folders or add the hdd's later when u have windows installed, this way less chance of any errors.why do u want to see all your hdd in that list anyways? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spunge Posted February 19, 2005 Author Share Posted February 19, 2005 why r u emulating? just install it to a 1-2gb virtual disk. then use the shared folders or add the hdd's later when u have windows installed, this way less chance of any errors.why do u want to see all your hdd in that list anyways?<{POST_SNAPBACK}>I'm sending 'prog files' and 'docs & settings' to different drives and want to ensure that I don't screw up on the drive letters.Should I expect not to see all physical drives? I just assumed that I would see a screen similar to that in the first image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted February 19, 2005 Share Posted February 19, 2005 i also install the progs and docu's on different partitionsu can create 2 virtual disks for that to test it.in real windows setup it'll be able to see your drives. i believe if they're sata u might need to do something, or not, i cannot remember i think i needed that when i put it as raid. u shouldn't worry about the drive letters. if u created the partitions in orderfor exampleif u create c: drive first as primary thend as logical ande as logical and in your winnt u tell it to install progras on d & docu's on e it'll be fine...i hope u understood what i tried to say, i'm little tired now, might not make any sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spunge Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 i hope u understood what i tried to say, i'm little tired now, might not make any sense <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thanks XM. Hope you get good rest. p.s. What minimum partion size should I allow for c:\ if I install progs and docs elswhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted February 20, 2005 Share Posted February 20, 2005 i had allowed 2gigs then the C:\windows\Installer started building up, and when i remove the files in there i got many errors, so i've set it to 3 gigs and i've the pagefile on another hdd.but thats me, i dunno if u install many apps or not. well make it 2.5gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spunge Posted February 20, 2005 Author Share Posted February 20, 2005 Forgot to mention I'll also be moving the page file and didn't even consider the Installers. I think I'll plumb for the 3gig option.Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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