Configuring Storage
Microsoft recommends that you partition and format only the system partition during Windows installation. The Disk Management snap-in (or the new disk-part command) is a much more elegant and efficient way of partitioning and formatting disks and volumes than is Windows Setup, and it is best for you to do as many of your disk management chores as possible after Setup completes. Here are some of the chores that you might need to complete (see Chapter 19 for complete procedures):
Partition and format any additional hard disk drives.
Set up any software-based redundant array of independent disks (RAIDs).
Check the Direct Memory Access (DMA) status of any Integrated Device Electronics (IDE) devices (to do so, in Device Manager, ...
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