When I try to reinstall vista family premium, to create more than one partition is greyed out.

I installed a new 500 GB HD in my notebook and want to partition into two equal parts, one for the OS and the other for stuff.  After formatting the only options available are to a single partition.

Hi Jesse,.

Are you booting from the disk and do the installation?

If you are, then you will need to click on advanced options to get the options to make changes on the HARD disk.

Now if you have a partition created aldready it give you an option to create a new partition.

What you need to do is to delete the existing partition and THEN ONLY it will give you the opportunity to create a new partition of the size of your favorite.

Aldready you could have a partition created and it has no more space available on the disk, the create partition option will greayed out.

Hope that helps.

PS Deleting the existing partition wil clear all data and installed programs. So please be sure that you have all important data backed up.

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