Re-partiton hard drive

[Pete N Leanne]

can one re-partition a hard drive with Vista and install Windows 7 for a
multi-boot setup?
if so, what's the easiest way?
hpdesktop
Intel Core2 Quad CPU [email protected]
3Gigs of RAM
360Gig Hard Drive (126 Gigs Free)
Vista Home Premium 32 bit

 

[Dave]

First you have to shrink the existing partition. You may be able to use
Disk Management (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer
Management - Disk Management) but it can only shrink until it hits an
unmovable file (then you would have to use another program, like Easeus
Partition Master http://www.partition-tool.com/). I would suggest
shrinking by at least 60 GB.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/5166-dual-boot-installation-windows-7-vista.html

 

[Pete N Leanne]

Okay - Partition Wizard worked for shrinking/recreating another partition,
but did a boo-boo w/Vista Boot Pro and had to recover vista as i messed up
the bootloader i think as the machine wouldn't reboot ("NTLDR is missing"
error), i'm thinking it may have been ticking the wrong boxes/buttons on the
System Bootloader Maintenance screen. The tutorial/help isn't very user
friendly (someone trying to sound smarter than they actually are). If
anyone has been through this, a couple of pointers would be appreciated.
thx in advance

 

[Dave]

After you create the new partition, all you need to do is to format and
install Win 7 on it. Win 7 will set up the multi-boot options. You only
need Vista Boot Pro to make changes to the options, like renaming the OS's,
changing the default, etc.
I suggest asking for assistance in Sevenforums... Brink really does know his
stuff.



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