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Old 16th Nov 2008, 14:26
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Hi all
Have just come into posession of a laptop with windows vista
id like to partition the hard drive and install xp so i have a dual boot option but not sure which is the best software to do it on vista so advice needed and sought
its running home premium v slow though
thanks for advice

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Old 16th Nov 2008, 22:00
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Take a look at this HERE, it should help you
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Old 18th Nov 2008, 12:08
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cheers m8
will try it when the new o/s delivered
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Old 7th Dec 2008, 11:14
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hi m8
Did the steps as described from 1-4 but when when it rebooted it couldnt find the new drive,
and i have lost 30gb, any ideas on how to get it back?
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Old 8th Dec 2008, 05:00
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Have you created the new partition ? ..... if not, go to Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management .... you should see unallocated space, with which to create the partition.
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Old 11th Dec 2008, 12:21
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sorry for taking my time responding philthomas, when i look at the c drive from my computer it has about 90gb of space, when in disk management it shows 127gb and no unallocated space so it seems to have disappeared
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Old 21st Dec 2008, 04:44
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so any ideas how to retrieve it back guys?
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Old 21st Dec 2008, 05:32
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Can you do a screen shot of what shows in Disk Management
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Old 27th Dec 2008, 05:57
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have tried to do screen shot but doesnt seem to work but still in same position having lost 30 gb of the hard drive
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Old 27th Dec 2008, 07:21
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Can you describe exactly what is shown in Disk Management then .... in the Central panel's upper and lower windows.

It sounds to me as though you have successfully shrunk the C: Drive, but not created the new partition, but it is difficult to advise you properly, without seeing what you are seeing

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