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Vista RC1
I have a Dell XPS 400 with 1 hard drive thats 160 GB. I want to try out
VISTA RC1 and have a dual boot system. I installed Partition magic 8 and am a bit confused. It won't let me use the wizards because it says I have partitions that are unmoveable so I need to use the operations menu. Should I just resize my main c drive partition and then use the unallocated space to make a new partition and drive letter? And if I do that will I be able to install VISTA there and will it enable me to dual boot? TIA , I just don't want to zap my original OS. |
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"Anthony" wrote in message ... I have a Dell XPS 400 with 1 hard drive thats 160 GB. I want to try out VISTA RC1 and have a dual boot system. I installed Partition magic 8 and am a bit confused. It won't let me use the wizards because it says I have partitions that are unmoveable so I need to use the operations menu. Should I just resize my main c drive partition and then use the unallocated space to make a new partition and drive letter? And if I do that will I be able to install VISTA there and will it enable me to dual boot? TIA , I just don't want to zap my original OS. Yes, I've had the same PM8 error message. Just 1. Reduce size of C: with free space after it 2. Create new partition in free space 3. Execute the actions. |
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pen wrote:
"Anthony" wrote in message ... I have a Dell XPS 400 with 1 hard drive thats 160 GB. I want to try out VISTA RC1 and have a dual boot system. I installed Partition magic 8 and am a bit confused. It won't let me use the wizards because it says I have partitions that are unmoveable so I need to use the operations menu. Should I just resize my main c drive partition and then use the unallocated space to make a new partition and drive letter? And if I do that will I be able to install VISTA there and will it enable me to dual boot? TIA , I just don't want to zap my original OS. Yes, I've had the same PM8 error message. Just 1. Reduce size of C: with free space after it 2. Create new partition in free space 3. Execute the actions. I would strongly suggest backing up EVERYTHING as step one. Bob |
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I did , thx though..by the way what firewall works with VISTA? I hear the
windows firewall is much improved ,should i just go with that? "Bob Levine" wrote in message news:_tVMg.3953$Qb2.1078@trnddc08... pen wrote: "Anthony" wrote in message ... I have a Dell XPS 400 with 1 hard drive thats 160 GB. I want to try out VISTA RC1 and have a dual boot system. I installed Partition magic 8 and am a bit confused. It won't let me use the wizards because it says I have partitions that are unmoveable so I need to use the operations menu. Should I just resize my main c drive partition and then use the unallocated space to make a new partition and drive letter? And if I do that will I be able to install VISTA there and will it enable me to dual boot? TIA , I just don't want to zap my original OS. Yes, I've had the same PM8 error message. Just 1. Reduce size of C: with free space after it 2. Create new partition in free space 3. Execute the actions. I would strongly suggest backing up EVERYTHING as step one. Bob |
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