Solved Acer netbook-windows 7 and partitioning.

[stephennity]

hi,

I have finally managed to set up an Acer netbook and have installed a new hard drive (160gb) and installed windows 7 on it...the thing I am wondering is if I need to partition the hard drive so that the operating system is in a different place...I tried to do this at the beginning of the install but it wouldn`t let me do that so at the moment I have everything on the same drive...does this matter ?

Hope somebody can help with this,

Thanks,

 

[x BlueRobot]

It will be fine having the operating system and your data on one disk, here is an example of my partitioning of my hard-drive (almost default partitioning from OEM) - see attachment

Could you please upload a screenshot of your maximised Disk Management window?

 

[stephennity]

Thanks for the reply...Yes of course, I will take and post a screen shot but it will be a little later on as I am using another computer right now and will need to go and open up the netbook...this thing I am using at the moment is very old.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Thanks!

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[stephennity]

I hope I have managed to upload this correctly

 

[x BlueRobot]

The partitioning of your hard-drive is fine, you have one root directory (partition where operating system is installed) and a System Reserved partition (Windows uses this to boot from).

The partitioning of your hard-drive is completely normal and you won't have any problems with your operating system and files being on one partition.

 

[stephennity]

Hi and thanks for taking the time to check this out for me...i appreciate it.

 

[gregrocker]

If you missed it, it shows in steps 7/8 here when you should have gotten the chance to partition the drive as you wish during a booted install. Clean Install Windows 7

Absent doing this yourself, the installer will do it for you however.

 

[stephennity]

Yes I recall this step but there was only the one drive and so i just left it alone...wisely !

thanks.

 

[Injust]

Please mark this thread as solved.
Thanks!

 

[stephennity]

Yes...solved thanks.