16. Create New Partition Using The Vista DVD

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There are two basic ways of creating a new partition. The first is through Disk Management from within the Vista operating system itself or, alternatively, there is a way of creating a new partition using the Vista DVD.

To create a new partition using the Vista CD proceed as follows:

1/ Switch on your PC.

2/ Quickly insert the Vista DVD into your CD/DVD-ROM drive.

3/ A message will appear asking you to 'Press any key to boot from CD/DVD.'

4/ Press any key.

5/ A black screen will now appear with a progress bar along the bottom. The legend say's Windows is loading files.

6/ After the files have been loaded the Language screen will appear.

7/ Select your language from the list and press Next.

8/ At the Installation screen press the Install Now button.

9/ The product key window will now open.

10/ Type your product key number into the available box and then press OK.

11/ The End user Licence Agreement now appears. You 'must' accept this to continue.

12/ The next screen to appear is Where do you want to install Windows.

13/ At the bottom of this window you will see an option marked Drive options (Advanced), click on this option.

14/ In this Window select 'unallocated space' from the list of partitions and then click New.

15/ A size box will now appear under the New option.

16/ Type the size of the new partition into this box (or simply accept the default), then click the Apply button

17/ The new partition will now be created.