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How to partition Hard Drive
Name: Truc Nguyen Date: January 5, 2008 at 07:32:25 Pacific OS: Win Vista CPU/Ram: 2G Product: Dell
Comment:
I just purchased new labtop. I want to partition the hard drive (160G) into 2 logical drives to contain data for second one
Try using partition magic or partition manager to partition your drive or use Windows Vista's tools to shrink the hard drive and then set the second drive active, unhide the first drive if it hides and then install Windows XP on the second partition. That way, your system drive will always be C on Vista and XP.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: January 5, 2008 at 14:53:40 Pacific
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FYI
It's a known fact that Symantec Partition Magic (other than Paragon Partition Manager 8.5) will not work with Vista.
The only problem with Paragon is that the full working version cost $49.95. Don't try the demo version.
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Response Number 5
Name: Truc Nguyen Date: January 5, 2008 at 20:11:51 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you
After shrinking the size of existing logical drive, do I format the second drive?
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Response Number 6
Name: Sabertooth Date: January 6, 2008 at 08:45:02 Pacific
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You can if you want to, but you don't need to reformat it.
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Response Number 7
Name: Alphawave Date: January 8, 2008 at 09:32:17 Pacific
Reply:
Vista has it's own partitioning function built in. Just go to Computer Management, then Storage, Disk Management. Right click on volume and select Shrink, etc.
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