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Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry "brink" You would be better off bringing the files over from the OS partition that you want to put them on. Shawn -- brink *There are no dumb questions, just the people

Vista Questions
"Brink" wrote: ploquit;623360 Wrote: I had already upgraded my xp media center to vista home premium. I want to reinstall it but don't want 2 partitions if i don't need them. xp was backed up along with other program that came with the computer at time of purchase on partition D: FAT32 my question is do i need this

Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
It was an upgrade from XP Home Edition (which came with the PC) to Vista Home Premium on the original C partition. My question - will Vista reinstall cleanly onto the G drive without problems? I have found that the install commences properly (I quickly stopped it from proceeding as it was only a test).

Laptop recovery partition question
Your XP system does see Vista and wipes out your restore points unless you are using a third party boot product that hides the partition. 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 interface] 160GB: has

Quicken 2007 Revision 3 is ready - but won't install for me
I do have WinXP on another partition, I decided it was safer to try the other first. I clicked WinXP and bingo, it got me there. Signed out and next time a normal CMOS screen appeared like nothing has happened. I got into my Vista. I will be coming back with more questions. I need a tutorial as to how to avoid such

Uninstall Vista w/out loosing data
Marcus tonymarcu...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista general Hello, I'm planning to install Vista as a dual boot with my current version of XP. I am going to make a 40GB partition on my second hard drive, my question is when I set up my partition should I make it a Boot partition or can I keep it as an

Remove dual boot options
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 interface] 160GB: has I want to uninstall Windows Vista x86-32 without re-formatting/repartioning my primary HDD partition where Vista is currently installed.

System Restore and Dual Boot problem
I now have a virtual PC on my Vista laptop, running XP and loaded with sequenced versions of Office 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2007 - all all work. brilliant, The only reason that I need the XP partition is that we have sequenced versions of Office (these were sequenced using Softgrid ijn an XP environment) and i

OT - Vista Question
Anyhow, to answer your question directly, I _think_ I need EFI capability for a complex reason. Warning, Long Winded Reason coming up, Do Not Read the Following Under Any Wanted to use it to wipe free space on my Mac's Vista partition, without it zapping any regular Vista files. The creator of that Vista util'

extending the C: partition
Maybe someone with more experience with that can answer that particular question. If neither of those options are workable, then no, the data won't be So I would not be able to use the hidden partition as the boot disk for vista to repair any damaged files? It's just that I would obviously want to try anything

Vista laptop coming - do I fdisk?
So I started thinking this might be a permissions problem since I was using the E: partition. OTOH, I did create the new folders on the E: partition using my Vista account so that should elimate a permissions problem, I think... Question: Does anybody know if there is anything special that needs to be done in Vista

Quicken 2008 Deluxe Vista 64 bit - Couple of questions
The "extend" option for the Vista partition is grayed out. I have Partition magic installed on my XP partition, but I am very reluctant to use it for this purpose due to poor reviews. Any response to this question would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Amir An intelligent utility will not attempt to resize a mounted

Chkdsk and Vista Issue
I could see myself eventually migrating to Vista as my main OS, but want to give it time first. Right now, Vista is on it's own hard drive, when I boot into Vista it see's the Vista partition as drive C, and I have another partition on that drive for data as well. My XP Pro install is on another hard drive,

Question
n00k m...@n00k.com microsoft public windows vista general OK, this may be a dumb one but here goes. I want to instal WinXP 32bit on my Vista Home Premium 64bit system. I installed VPC, start the WinXP install process and when it gets to the "format partition" part of the show, I get kinda nervous, I don't like the

Disk imaging advise
When I updated my old 98 box to XP Home the "C" drive became the "E" drive. Go figger. According to a Microsoft rep I talked to: When starting a Vista install by booting from the DVD, Vista will insist on labeling its partition as "C". When starting a Vista install by opening the DVD from within an existing OS,

Full PC restore not working
Dr Teeth no_email_here_ple...@tardis.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I will be ordering a new laptop in a couple of days. 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

hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)
One more question before I hit the delete button. If I delete the C partition, my XP parition, will my Vista partition suddenly decide that it's the C partition and not the F partition--which I think it ought to be, but won't that mess up some apps or something? Or will C just remain weirdly empty?

Yet another Dual boot question
Vista somehow "sees" the second partition as C because thats where its installed and the first partition with XP, it sees as D, and of course XP that is the This is the behaviour of vista now.. so can this same behavior be done on XP? Sorry if this is kinda confusing.. I hope I expressed this question well

Recovery Partition on Vista Hard Drive
(Well, I could and did, until my WinXP stopped working.) So long as both WinXP x86 and Vista x64 can see that folder, it won't matter if WinXP calls it to its own Boot Volume - even if that's the 3rd partition on the second hard drive - and then the System Partition (traditionally Drive C:) gets the letter D:.

OK for XP to create files on Vista partition ?
Hence I suggest you post your question to a new thread and it might help. "huangsy" wrote: Hi, My problem is similar, so I will piggyback my question here. I was so frustrated with Vista that I finally planned to partition the hard-disk and get XP installed on one. But the Disk manager or the diskpart utility