For any easier alternative versus what has been posted, which you can do during the installation: At the first setup screen (Language, Keyboard, etc.) press SHIFT+F10. This will open a command prompt window.
Enter the following diskpart commands to create a partition.

- Diskpart
- List disk
(this command is important. It will show you what disk drives you have. Most likely your hard drive will be will be Disk 0,
but you need to check it first.)

- select disk 0
- clean
- create partition primary size=60000
(this creates a partition 60GB in size, or change the value to any number you want. If you want to use the whole hard drive, just leave off the size=number)

- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=ntfs quick

Type Exit to leave Diskpart. Type Exit to close the command prompt. Now continue with the install. When you get to the
partition screen, highlight the partition you just created and click Next. Windows will install to the partition you created
and not create the 100MB boot partition. Instead, you will see a C:\Boot folder when the install is finished (like Vista has).