Yesterday, I taught you How to Partition and Reformat a Computer using Windows 7. Today, I am going to continue that lesson by creating a partition and setting up a reformatted computer using Windows 7.
We left off still in DISKPART in the command window. If you aren’t, go back to yesterday’s tutorial to do so.
Creating a Partition
All you have to do is type create partition primary. Very easy. That is all you have to do unless you want to create more partitions with specific sizes.
If you do want to create a partition with a certain size (say for example, 100GB) type create partition primary size=102400.
You need to do some math to get that: 1024MB = 1GB which equals 1024×100 = 102400.
You will need to format it and label it. Also determine the file structure, but I will show using NTFS.
So after you create a certain size, type format fs=ntfs label=”Windows 7″ (or any other file structure or name you want)
Once done, type active to make it active. You can do this as many times as you want, just leave enough room for sizes.
Set Up Windows 7
Once done formatting, type exit to get out of DISKPART.
Type exit again to get out of the command.
From there, just follow the installer and instead of formatting using the Windows 7 installer method, just choose the partition as you have already formatted!
Give it time and you are done! Welcome to Windows 7 (again).
Be sure to change the boot sequence back!
Also, be sure to install all missing drivers and UPDATE IMMEDIATELY!
Tomorrow’s post will be about Quickly Restoring Your Computer without Ruining it This Time
Part 1: How to Partition and Reformat a Computer using Windows 7
Part 2: How to Create a Partition and Set Up a Reformatted Computer using Windows 7 (here)
Part 3: Quickly Restoring Your Computer Programs without Ruining it This Time
Part 4: Restoring Passwords and Bookmarks to Firefox After Reformatting
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