System installation of Windows Vista tutorial

Hard Disk partitions

Windows Vista can be installed on either the primary hard drive partition or the extended partition, but make sure that the hard disk has a 12-15GB partition (for a 32-bit x86 platform) or 10GB (on a 64-bit x64 platform). It is recommended that you prepare more than 25GB of hard disk partitions for Windows Vista, and of course the larger the partitions the better.

Windows Vista must be installed to an NTFS partition. In previous Windows Vista beta releases, it was found that when Windows Vista was installed to an extended partition and the boot partition (primary partition) uses the FAT32 format, the system sometimes has unpredictable errors, but Windows Vista RTM has fixed most of the problems, at least not the same fault in Vista's installation tests. However, in order to fully enjoy the enhancements that Windows Vista brings, especially the increased security, it is strongly recommended that all hard disk partitions be formatted with NTFS.

Note: The NTFS file system in Windows Vista uses an updated version, so an NTFS partition built using Third-party tool software such as partitions magic may cause serious errors in Windows Vista, so Do not use Third-party software that does not pass Windows Vista compatibility tests when you partition your hard disk, either through Disk Manager in Windows XP or by Windows Vista Installer during setup.

Driver Program

Window Vista supports the vast majority of SATA hard drives, so if you are using a SATA hard drive, you do not have to install Windows XP like you did before, and you must install the SATA drive using a floppy disk during installation.

If you are using a RAID (array) configuration, you may still need to add drivers during the installation process. Similar to the "F6" during installation of Windows XP, Windows Vista provides an option named "Load Driver" during installation, except that it is no longer limited to floppy installation, and the appropriate driver can use a variety of carriers including floppy disks, such as CD/DVD, u disk, external hard disk and even memory stick.

Note that you should try to install the necessary Sata/raid drivers only during Windows Vista Setup without having to load all the drivers into the system installation process, which can be installed after the installation process has finished.