I've got two 250 GB hard drives, neither have any partitions. I used to have Vista on one and XP on the other, but I've since changed to have just XP on one and use the other as storage. What I'd like to do is create a new partition on the drive with XP on it so that I could have Vista and XP on one physical drive (two different partitions) and then use the other for storage. Is this even possible? Or would the ensuing reformat from creating a partition completely wipe out my drive?
I'm pretty sure I won't be able to do this, but I wanted to confirm with the techies first (I'm too poor to just buy another HDD as storage, though I definitely need to)
Also, don't give me any of that anti-Vista bullshit please. This isn't a thread open to debate, I just want to know if this can be done, and if so, how I can accomplish that.
EDIT: Guess I'll try to make a quick little table explaining what I'm after
Past
Drive A: XP
Drive B: Vista
Present
Drive A: XP
Drive B: -storage-
Future (Desired)
Drive A: XP + Vista
Drive B: -storage-
I'm pretty sure I won't be able to do this, but I wanted to confirm with the techies first (I'm too poor to just buy another HDD as storage, though I definitely need to)
Also, don't give me any of that anti-Vista bullshit please. This isn't a thread open to debate, I just want to know if this can be done, and if so, how I can accomplish that.
EDIT: Guess I'll try to make a quick little table explaining what I'm after
Past
Drive A: XP
Drive B: Vista
Present
Drive A: XP
Drive B: -storage-
Future (Desired)
Drive A: XP + Vista
Drive B: -storage-
Last edited by mtb0minime (2008-12-07 00:03:02)