Let's say you leave space unpartitioned during setup and then partition it later with GPARTED or Windows 7.
Why not do that?
As to the DVD drive, why not change that early on so later software is set to what you want and of course you can always dive into the registry to correct this.
My point is this. You are talking about an expert setup so why not be an expert?
Bob
My problem is that Windows 7 setup only allows you to create primary partitions unlike XP's setup which from the 4th partition starts making logical volumes. Thus the maximum number partitions that you can create during Windows 7 setup is 4. But I want to create 5 partitions. I can of course use disk management after installing Windows. But by then DVD drive gets allocated as D drive. The drive letter can be changed but with a warning that certain programs that depend on drive letters will not work.

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