# 1st-stage GUI setup, Part 2 - October-November 2023: Making partitioning UI work

DevFeed: [1st-stage GUI setup, Part 2 - October-November 2023: Making partitioning UI work](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/1st-stage-gui-setup-part-2-october-november-2023-making-partitioning-ui-work-32842.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/gui-setup-part2-partitioning/>)

Published: 2024-01-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [GUI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gui.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [bootloader](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bootloader.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [gui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gui.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [partitioning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/partitioning.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

This second ReactOS development blog post describes work from October and November 2023 on the new first-stage GUI setup, focusing on disk partitioning and its workflow compared with the existing text-mode installer. It also notes related setupapi synchronization work and identifies file copying and registry settings as features discussed in future posts.

## Source excerpt

Greetings! Welcome to the second blog of the series "1st-stage GUI setup": September 2023: Partly Wine-syncing setupapi October-November 2023: Making partitioning UI work December 2023: First tests As you may have noticed, I have been quite silent about my work and not regularly writing blog posts about what I have done so far. Well, I am more concerned about getting actual code written and working before discussing about it, instead of doing that about half-done not-yet-tested code; much like what the GUI setup was during these previous months.