Newbie Builder fdisking for Win7 RC

[Tomro]

I'm putting my computer together this week and I'm lost on how to make a boot disk to partition and format for NTFS. Can I use a win98 boot disk to do the fdisk in FAT32 and then get win7 to change it to NTFS? I'm planning on setting my c drive at 50GB and then divide the remainder into larger drives. Thanks

 

[Billb2]

The win 98 disk will do that, as will an XP disk.

Partition Magic can do that too.

 

[corkyg]

And, generically, UBCD (Ultimate Boot CD) is a tool that every user should have in the toolbox. That or Bart PE.

 

[pcgeek11]

The Windows 7 RC bootable DVD will also allow you to do the same thing during the installation process .... It will also create another hidden partition of 100MB for system files.

pcgeek11

 

[MadeToServeHIM]

The Windows 7 RC also comes with a tool that allows you to edit your hard drive, make partitions, etc. With the RC you can delete all partitions, and then make a limited size partition simply by entering the number of MB. If for some reason you can't get this to work, let me know, and I'll send you a bootable partition manager.

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[RebateMonger]

All of Microsoft's recent OSes have a disk manager as part of the install routine. Vista and Win7 give you access to all the features of Windows Disk Management.

 

[dfnkt]

Shouldn't GPartED work for this as well? Just trying to expand the range of options for anyone coming up on this thread later.