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new xp partition on laptop with vista pre installed
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?

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When I tried to use it in Vista, Vista rejected the program. A display popped up saying the program could not be installed (or used, I don't recall which) in Vista. I attempted to install it on my secondary drive that had an empty partition but it kept wanting to format and repartition the whole drive and I had

How to tell 32 bit or 64 bit vista when computer will not boot
...My point exactly. So keeping this in mind what's wrong with a scheme such as the one below for the OP's concrete partitioning need? PP = primary partition EP = extended partition [ ---- PP1: Vista OS ---- ][ ---- PP2: Vista/Linux storage ---- ][ ---- PP3 /boot---- ][ -------- EP: swap+Linux+.

Removing the hidden partition
DIS Anniversary Edition is optimized for Vista and there is a compatibility patch for DIS2006. MS Digital Image 2006 *Vista Compatibility* Update http://tinyurl.com/w5u58 I successfully installed my MS Picture It!/ MS Digital Image programs on my Vista partition. The versions that function correctly are: PI99,

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Here's the deal, I am trying to setup my Vista box as a dual boot. I am trying to set it up the same way I had my XP box setup - basically, grub to the linux boot partition, use dd to copy the first block of that partition to a file and copy it over to drive C. Then I add teh linux entry to Vista's boot menu.

Migration of Vista Upgrade installation to new drive
Davoud s...@sky.net comp sys mac system techno guy wrote: Here is the speed i get on my Vista partition: http://www.speedtest.net/result/145045784.png And here is the speed I Here's another test with a server about 350km from my home: <http://www.speedtest.net/result/145494931.png> Now, what was the question?

Disk imaging advise
You do need it :-) I have 3 GB of RAM on my computer and still keep the 2 GB swap partition I had back when having 1 GB of RAM. Just a hint for the OP - if your Vista OS is *NOT* the 64b version one, you might want to try out Ext2FS - a tool which allows you to mount your ext2/3 partitions under Windows with

Dual boot - remove one OS.
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 word "format", at least when I'm not expecting that word. Is it ok to tell it to format or will it

Vista and 2000 pro
The Vista install will shutdown XP, and continue to install. Then you'll have a boot menu and can boot to anything you could before. Just be sure not to install over your XP install. Also a NTFS partition is required for Vista. My Vista partition is 8 GB, 10 to 15 would be better. Have your Product Key number ready

LONG [News Digest] Linux News Digest for the 24hrs preceding 31-03-07
Andre Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com My Vista Quickstart Guide: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry "RC White" .... Regarding the question of System drives in Disk Management, when I was booted into Vista, both drives were shown as "System" with the C: being shown as "Boot"

Yet another Dual boot question
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. -- Cheers, Guy ** Stress - the condition brought about by having

Hide Vista partition(s) from Windows XP - Fix for System ...
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

assigning free hard drive space
I read that to be able to extend the C: partition in vista (using the partition software in VISTA) the empty space need to be to the right. 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 120 Gb..

Vista don't like a resized partition ???
FoolsGold f...@gmail.com comp sys ibm pc games action johns wrote: the Vista partition is not NTFS Oh yes it is. A check of the Properties of my Vista partition says so. It is possible however that it's a slightly newer version of the NTFS filesystem, a little newer than what XP used. Your trouble of removing the

A vista question about the one user buy stuff.
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. So now I have no working installs of Such is progress in my vista of Linuxland. You should ask for your money back... oh but wait it's free isn't it. Achim axethetax.

Free Space Monster (episode 2)
"Rock" wrote: "I. Rau" wrote Question: If i use the Complete PC Backup utility that comes with Ultimate, will it also backup my recovery partition in addition to the partition that contains my vista operating system. Both partitions reside on the same hard drive. I have accidentally erased my recovery partition and

Dual Boot question
Hi, Problem: My virtual memory is too large for the partition where is installed Vista 32 Ultimate. About 11 GB are used by Vista and others programs the rest 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

Dual-Boot XP & Vista
As Tom said, the OP had wiped the restore partition, but still had the diagnostics partition available. Thus, Sudohnim's question to me. I don't have a Vista machine (yet), so I can't check it out myself. Anyone? My Vista laptop only has one restore partition and one diagnostic partition.

OEM EULA question
Go to my response first, which is the second of those here. I'd be happy to go into more detail for those who have questions, but I think the comments below I reinstalled Quicken (06, Basic) on the Vista partition. I already had it working fine on x64. As best I could tell, Quicken was working fine on both OSes

Recovery Partition
I guess this answers my "was Vista pre-installed" question in a roundabout way. :>{ appeared on the default drive C. This gave me 10GB extra, but there is still about Vista does not partition a hard drive without instructions from you. What is the make and model of your computer? Was Vista pre-installed on it?