Setting up vista and partitioning help

[ecole9]

Hey all!

I put together my system and was trying to partition my 250gb hd. It recognized like 232gb. I was going to make two partitions. One would be 30gb for Vista-64bit and another would be 8gb (2xRAM) for Pagefile. Well somehow I managed to partition 30gb for vista and 200gb and left around 2gb that was unpartitioned. I did not want this but it would not let me delete the 200gb partition. Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks! I need help ASAP please!

:eek:

[mjc]

Well, I would go with what you ended up with...the pagefile=RAM x2 is a rule of thumb that is long past its 'use by' date. Once you hit a GB of RAM, the pagefile is pretty much not going to be used often (yes, that goes for Vista too, unless that is all you have and you try to use all the eye candy).

A pagefile of between half and a gig is sufficient for most systems. 2 GB is plenty.

[Paul Komski]

First off: 250/1.074 = ~232 (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=62991) so probably no lost area there.

Vista is picky about the way it formats and deals with existing partitions - particularly if they were created by something other than Vista itself.

Vista's Disk Management should be able to expand or shrink an existing partition with certain limitations and provisos but Vista's whole approach is based on different partition boundaries (http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=931854) than legacy OSes and the potential for dealing with very increased cluster sizes in the future sometime.

If it wont let you do anything with those 2GB there is probably a very good reason for it because of the way Vista partitions drives.

[ecole9]

Thanks for the help! I decided to not mess with it and Vista made my 30gb C drive its space and I'm going to load games and storage on the rest of the 200gb space. That 1-2gb that Vista took is just lost space I guess but nothing ridiculous.