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Vista Ultimate Reinstallation

Asked by dalsandhu in Windows Vista

Tags: Vista Ultimate Installation Partitions

Hi

I am attempting to install Vista Ultimate and have a question re which partition to choose when installing.

My current partitions are:
Volume: Blank, File System: Blank, Status: Healthy (EISA Configuration)
Volume: System (S:), File System: NTFS, Status: Healthy (System, Active, Primary, Partition)
Volume: Vista (C:), File System: NTFS, Status: Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash, Dump, Primary Partition)

Capacity of S: is 1.46GB, and C: is 226.05GB.

All Layouts are 'Simple',and Type are 'Basic'.

When I do the install, it selects S: by default but says it needs 7GB to install there.

I am confused as it actually had Vista Ultimate already.

My question: should I opt to install on C: or should I expand the size of S: to accommodate 7-8GB? And what's on S: now if Ultimate needs 7GB to put itself there?

History for what it's worth is that I originally had Vista Home Premium and upgraded to Ultimate. Norton 360 wasn't behaving properly post-upgrade (despite disabling anti-virus as recommended). Symantec tech support weren't able to remove it even using Norton Removal Tool and suggested my system is 'unstable'. My network is now totally non-functioning due I think to Norton 360 Firewall which I can't get rid of. I've spent a lot of time trying to resolve my internet connection problems to see if any windows updates could fix my problems, but I think now it's time to cut my losses and install Vista Ultimate from scratch. Lesson is that I should have disabled the firewall or removed Norton 360 altogether before upgrading the OS.

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