Partitioning Vista hard drive

[mwhoody]

Planning on buying a Dell computer which has a 320 gig hardrive. I would like to partition it into C, D, E, & an F drive

Is there any Vista compatable software that I can get to do this?

Thank You!!!

[N1K]

You can partition your hard disk during the first portion of Vista setup.

[toy4x4]

You can partition your hard disk during the first portion of Vista setup.

Correct or you can use the first portion of the setup to create your C drive and them use the Control Panel ->Computer Management -> Disk Management tool to create the other drives once Vista is installed.

[mwhoody]

Yes with Dell Vista would come preinstalled.

Thank You!!!

[wfunction]

Well, I'm not sure about any partitioning utility specifically for Vista, but here's my suggestion (with errors and fixes to them):

Get Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.

*IMPORTANT*: Create a WORKING Windows PE or BartPE or some other CD.

Resize your partition.

If Vista will boot properly, then you're done.

If it boots, but the profile is messed up, google change system drive letter and do what it says to change the system drive letter back to normal.

If it doesn't boot, then use your CD to boot, and use bcdedit to set the osdevice and device to the partition={drive}:, then do the previous step if needed.