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Old September 10th 06, 12:51 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Anthony
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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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Old September 10th 06, 01:07 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
pen
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"Anthony" wrote in message
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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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Old September 10th 06, 03:40 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Bob Levine
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pen wrote:


"Anthony" wrote in message
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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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Old September 10th 06, 07:03 PM posted to alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Anthony
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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
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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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