x61: vista business new install from Recovery disk ?

[itayo]

I got a new x61 with Vista Business. it came with a 60 days Office Trial and the HD was setup with one partition.

I would like to make a new installation with two partitions (one for system and one for documents) and I would also like NOT to install the 60 days Trial office that came with it.

I tired to work with the Recovery CD's that I got (all 7 of them) but I was not sure what to do ..

Can anyone help here ??

thanks a lot !
itay

[andyP]

Recover your system from the hidden partition or with the recovery cds, then create your partition.
Regardless of whether you use R&R or cds, office 2007 dissapears.

[itayo]

Thanks, Where can I change the Partition size ? is it during the installation or after ?

After Vista is installed , it lets me to shrink the size by 21gb only, and my disk is 100. with just vista on it.

Durint the install from factroy - will I be able to change partitions there?

thanks,
itayo

[DAH]

Basically what I hear you wanting to do you can't. At least not with rescue and recovery directly. Now some rescue and recovery programs will let you do a selective recovery to the factory restore. If yours does you could then not install office. But with rescue and recovery you will wind up with two partitions always, one usable and the other hidden.

I would suggest instead, using control panel to uninstall the office program and then going into Administrative tools | Computer Management to shrink the SW_Preload partition. Then you can create a new partition out of the free space.