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Partion using Vista Disk

post #1 of 5
3/13/07 at 9:48am
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Hi, i have vista installed on my c drive but i need a partition if i use the vista cd to create a partiton will it delete all my data on the c drive?
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post #2 of 5
3/14/07 at 2:21pm
sry what do you mean by you need a partition, are you trying to dual boot xp and vista and you need to split your partition? If you've installed vista onto your c drive then you HAVE a partition b/c you installed vista on it
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post #3 of 5
3/14/07 at 4:43pm
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I wanted to dual boot Vista With xp but i now have vista installed on c
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post #4 of 5
3/14/07 at 5:55pm
So you previously had XP installed, and then you tried to install vista, and now you have vista installed?...if you go into Computer on vista you should see a C drive and probably a D drive, where C is your vista hd and D is your XP hd but if you never split your partition I'm pretty sure you just lost whatever was in XP
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post #5 of 5
3/16/07 at 6:16pm
If Vista is the only OS installed on your computer and it is currently using your whole drive (all drive c: ) then you will need to Shrink your partition to allow a new partition to install XP.
You can Shrink the partition in Vista's Disk Management. Backup important stuff before performing this task.
If you are installing XP after Vista you will have other issues though... the Dual Boot screen for Vista is different and XP will overwrite it. Also, When XP boots it will show as D: for everything and your Vista partition will be on C:. Being that they are both NTFS, you have to be careful to not write to one or the other when installing programs.

Here is a step by step guide and the only thing I question is why they are doing the shrink in DOS when it can easily be done in Disk Management...
http://apcmag.com/5485/dualbooting_vista_and_xp
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