Installing Windows Sever 2008

[Gambit]

Hello guys,

Just got the download, now not done this for a while - last install was a XP several years ago using windows floppy disk!

I've now got a SATA drive - what should i do , just boot up with the CD first and then install onto the hard drive?

However dont i need to format the drive? and ideally i want to partition it, currently 250gb what ideally 90gb and 160gb partitions, how do i go about doing that??

(apologies if this is posted in the wrong forum, Mods pls move if required).

 

[Gambit]

But will i not need to install SATA drivers?

How would i do that? is it nessary??

 

[Gambit]

doesn't have 'generic' ones, it just has some that xp is missing, you still need drivers for some raid/sata controllers, but you can load them from usb

I've just bought a Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache from OcUK - do you reckon the drivers would be included/listed in Vista?

If not should i just download them from WD site and put them on USB - but when and how should i load these drivers up?

(apologies for all the questions...)