Nick wrote:Thanks Saddletramp-haven't had the 2 short blacks yet !
I did mean Vista
Not XP....( all tips greatly appreciated )
Does the above mentioned still apply to Vista ? & to "unhide" those hidden parts,do I boot via the "live" cd and use qtparted?? sorry for the hammerin' !!
& yes I am interested in other forms of set up if your kind enough to post them....
Well...if you sure you don't mind
startin' from scratch...here's what I had: (SDA1 - 250GB Sata -ran all my distros and Vista; SDB1 -320GB Sata - Backup drive for everything Ultimate Edition)
1. I set up all my partitions with GPartedLiveCD first
1a. set up SDA1, Primary Partition, NTFS, 50 GB
2. Set up remaining (unallocated) partiton as Extended EXT3 partition SDA2 (this is so Vista doesn't try to install anything on the rest of the drive (because it's extended, Vista will only install on the Primary Partition (50GB). Vista will also designate part of it as the D: (recovery) drive...you can delete the recovery partiton with GParted and resize Vista back into it (do this before installing Ultimate Edition),
3. After you're totally done with the Vista install...then get ready to start your Ultimate Edition installations (figure out what you wanna do and how you want to do it)
4. It was easier for me to setup the Extended partition for my Ultimate Edition installations with the GPartedLiveCD disk before even starting to load Ultimate Edition. I setup 2 50GB partitions (SDA5 & 6) for the root (/) directories of UE1.8x64 & x32...The remaining partition I subtracted 2GB from and split in half what was left to SDA7 as the home (/home) partiton for UE1.8x64...SDA8 as the home partition for UE1.8x32...the 2GB at the end for Swap file.
5. Then I installed my 1.8x32 first in SDA6 & 8.
6. Installed 1.8x64 in 5 & 7
The reason I put the Ultimate Edition root partitions up front is because I've read (then tried myself) that it would be faster to install partitions that are read/write to the most up front..I did notice a little bit of increase in speed & performance..so that's how I do it all now...
So there ya go...
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