Hi All
This is no doubt a really stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway .. when you do a clean install under vista ultimate (more particularly, an upgrade version) do you still get the opportunity to reformat your HD as you do when installing XP?
The reason I ask is I recently upgraded my computer including a 320gig hardrive..my XP disk is one of the original ones (pre SP1), so when I reformatted for a clean install of XP, the HD formatting was limited to 137Gig and effectively I have about 2/3 of my hardrive space wasted. XP only began to recognise larger capacity drives from SP1 on I believe.
After doing all the XP updates to SP2 and beyond I am supposed to be able to get acces to the unallocated space, but I have not figured out how. To be fair, I only really gave it a cursory try and after no luck with the disk management of XP or the Seagate discwizard software, I gave up.
Given I planned to upgrade to Vista shortly, I was prepared to live with the reduced HD space for a couple of months as I expected vista would recognise the true size of my HD as I reformatted it through vista during the upgrade/installation procedure.
After first reading about the clean instal issue for upgrade versions, I was fearing I would be forced to buy a complete edition if I wanted to have the full capacity of my hardrive recognised...as first installing my old XP disc would leave me with the reduced HD capacity again.
Anyway, so back to my original question, as long as the upgrade version of vista (ultimate) gives me that reformat option, I can use the fix talked about above and go aead and buy the upgrade version after all, hopefully?
Thanks in advance for any help.
cheers