Should I pay extra money for HDD partitioning ?

[sam9999]

I have not ordered till now and will order after 11th only.
@iMav what is this OEM machine ??

 

[iMav]

OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers) machine are the ones like dell/hp/acer which come pre-loaded with an OS

 

[CadCrazy]

pay it its too much of a hassle to partition an OEM machine

+1. Its worth it. I know how i shrinked Vista partion to 40GB . Vista's inbuilt partition utility is incapable to shrink the System partition beyond certain limits.
I manage to do it with Gparted in second go. First try was unsuccessful and got my vista parttion corrupted. Thank god i was able to recover it by CHKDisk

Besides there are chances of losing data in shrinking partiton if something goes wrong.

 

[DigitalDude]

I agree with iMav here...

cos Dell has mediadirect and other crap partitions... If you dont want to bother with that then just pay the .5k... or if you are confident of doing it and dont mind taking risks, then dont pay....




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[sam9999]

I will re-install the OS as soon as I get the laptop. So there is no chance of data corruption.

PS:: If Vista inbuilt partition tool fails.

 

[dOm1naTOr]

hi, we cant void warranty by installing any apps/OS na?
coz i wanna install vista ultimate [local edition] when i get my XPS.

 

[DigitalDude]

I will re-install the OS as soon as I get the laptop. So there is no chance of data corruption.

PS:: If Vista inbuilt partition tool fails.

then no problem mate dont pay and waste the money



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[CadCrazy]

hi, we cant void warranty by installing any apps/OS na?
coz i wanna install vista ultimate [local edition] when i get my XPS.

 

[paid]

in same case i used partition Magic with no data loss and successfully

 

[sam9999]

Thanks for the replies !!!
I wont pay xtra money now and will use Vista's inbuilt tool or Partition Magic.