Want clean install on new HDD

Go to disk management and you should see it. You can make a partition out of it in disk management and assign the drive letter D to it. Right click that unallocated space in disk management.

ignatzatsonic said:

Go to disk management and you should see it. You can make a partition out of it in disk management and assign the drive letter D to it. Right click that unallocated space in disk management.

Once I right click how do I make it into drive letter D?

You must make a partition and format it first. You can't assign a drive letter to unallocated space.

ignatzatsonic said:

You must make a partition and format it first. You can't assign a drive letter to unallocated space.

Gotcha. How do I make it a partition and format it first then?

As I said:

Go to disk management and right click the unallocated space.

ignatzatsonic said:

As I said:

Go to disk management and right click the unallocated space.

All I'm seeing his the option for "New Simple Volume" is that what you are referring to?

I'll post this again so you can see how to Create a Partition: Partition or Volume - Create New

I thought you were going to make your partition during install using the Custom>Drive Options.

gregrocker said:

I'll post this again so you can see how to Create a Partition: Partition or Volume - Create New

I thought you were going to make your partition during install using the Custom>Drive Options.

I must have been confused. I made the partition for the 100GB and figured the remaining memory would be partitioned. My mistake.

Yeah, I thnk that is it. Make sure you are right clicking the unallocated space rather than C.

After you create the volume, you should be able to format it.

Done deal. So now, what is the best way to ensure that only programs I install are on my 100GB partition and my data on the 365GB partition?