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Complete PC Backup of multiple OS - partial restore?
My Vista Home Premium machine has a 320 GB Sata Hard Disk. I'd like to cut it in two partitions : - Can I do this from within Vista ? - What comfortable size should I give to Vista itself (20 - 50 - 100 GB) ? My idea is to move all my user files to that new partition : - Is that a good idea ?

Clean Install Upgrade home premium from xp media center - part
When I reinstalled my xp it created two partitions - one of them says preload (C) 107.27 and 96.86 GB free and the second one is Service 001 (D) 4.52GB 2.52 GB free This is a 120 gb Laptop with 8 gigs of ram My question is how do I go about installing the vista (full-version) and when the 64 bit discs arrive do I

Complete PC Backup include recovery partition??
Since you have C and F on the same drive, you can try making the Vista partition active and then running the startup repair, Later you can try the Vista Disk The key question is will Vista recover a multiboot Vista backup onto a single drive? I would rather not reinstall Vista from scratch as it has taken a

Laptop recovery partition question
A few questions: - How is it possible for Vista to recognize two Active partitions? - How come Vista shows the System on D: where in fact it is installed on C:? - C: is marked as a logical .... Both C: (where my Vista is) and the troublesome partition are marked with "System" and "Active" in the Disk Management.

"Target Disk Mode" from Vista to OSX? (BootCamp)
William Dutton will.d...@gmail.com linux debian laptop what about vista ntfs partitions if someone is duel booting? This is what I did when I found out that my RAM size is larger than my swap partition. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the options for resizing partitions without losing data is pretty

Microsoft Picture It 2001 & Vista
After Ubuntu is loaded, I've run GParted, and I expand my C: partition from 40 to 60Gb... After the operation, Vista is booting but resize itself the partition back to 40Gb (after a few minute of working, like 20-30 min) and when Vista is back, I've check my partition size of C:, and it's a 40Gb!!! So my question

I have given up on Mandrake just switched to Suse
That would allow me to make images of my system-drive with Vista +programs only, without having to take care of my actual user documents and files. Suppose that I want to shrink my Vista partition to the above mentioned 80 GB: - How do I do this please ? - How do I get to the built-in shrink-utility ?

Virtual PC 2007 question...
And finally, I discovered that my adventures with MDRK9.1 and Grub had scrambled an entire partition of my Win98SE, corrupting some 280MB of files. Bernoulli drives, MDRK9.1, like Knoppix and Gentoo, now locks up whenever a Bernoulli disk is accessed on the SCSI chain. Such is progress in my vista of Linuxland.

Can't extend my Vista Partition
However now I will respond to your specific questions, to further clear up any points, I hope. ......Mark - I can edit those Mac files, delete them altogether, move them into the Vista partition, move my Vista files into any Mac-only drive. ......GT - Sounds like basic filesystem access. ......Mark - Nope.

System disk partitioning question
I have a situation where I need to determine the version of Vista installed on a computer, but the computer has crashed and cannot boot. The recovery partition is scrabled and I am forced to use a generic OEM dvd to reinstall Vista. My question is: is there anyway for me to tell which version of vista was running

I have given up on Mandrake just switched to Suse
I've seen and read the posts regarding the dual boot issues/questions with vista. I'm now looking to carry this one step further and ask if I can partition a section of my single hard drive on my laptop (I've got the space available) and then install xp to the new partition. I'm fed up with the issues of blaming MS

Speed of Vista
Not necessarily: Usually, you only have to reactivate IF you change motherboards, or delete then recreate your Vista System partition, or replace your HD. So I am asking if I need to go buy a new vista ultimate every time I go uninstall my vista ore what I need to do so I can keep using it even after I have

Clean Install Upgrade home premium from xp media center - partion
C:\ page file reduced as 100MB to 800MB Virtual Memory my settings and F:\ windows auto managed page file on the second hd. hiberfil.sys file deleted with Questions: I have 2 hard disks 160GB and 230 GB First hd 160GB as 2 partitions: C:\ Vista 32 Ultimate used 20GB the rest D:\ is a partition for programs

System disk partitioning question
I have a program that runs under DOS and will not run in windows Vista. As it worked on my old 2000 pro PC I am trying to install 2k pro onto my vista machine. All the howtos say you have to have the old OS on first but is there a way i can add 2k pro to my Vista machine? Is it as simple as crating a new partition

Cloning Hard drive
This is my first post! This is THE BEST forum to post my Vista question! Hers my situation: I have 2 HDDs 40GB: has WinXP Pro SP2 [Normal IDE or PATA Then boot over to XP and delete everything on your Vista partition *except* your data of course. Now you can perform a clean install...but be sure *NOT* to format

Can't extend my Vista Partition
Richard Rudnick r...@aphroneo.net ubuntu-users-archive On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:55 -0600, Alex Barrantes wrote I am a new user on linux, I burn my CDs with the Question: Is Ubuntu installer that I have fallen allows this operation? Thanks Two things: First, it's a good idea to resize the vista partition from

Licensing Question
Unfortunately, it has a recovery partition on the hard disk...I HATE those. Will I be able to use my Vista OEM DVD *with* the laptop's serial number to install Vista and still be kosher? Cheers, Guy ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights ** out of

Outlook 2007 and Vista (Send/Receive Loop)
I could no boot my Vista partition in any type of safe mode, let alone normal mode. I had always avoided Windows Update drivers, but thought things may have improved with Vista. The driver in question is ATi PCI Express 3GIO or something very similar. It killed my onboard Marvell network.

Partitioning Question
As I said in my last post I use OneCare on a virtual machine simply in case I get asked a particular question about it. Other than for that reason I wouldn't use it at all. My Vista partition is protected with Sophos Enterprise anti virus. -- John Barnett MVP Associate Expert Windows - Shell/User Web:

Windows Vista Install without erasing partition.
On the Bridge OntheBri...@1701.com microsoft public windows vista general Now, the question: Does the empty space have to be *directly *to the right of the I did free some space to the right but did not manage to extend the C: partition (my computer was shipped with only one partition of 30Gb on a hard drive of