CosmoKramer
CC you in October
+131|6882|Medford, WI
can I do it?  I want to dual boot with xp and windows 7, can i take the extra space from my c drive and assign it to a new logical drive, or not because all the space on the hard drive is spread out and in clusters already?
max
Vela Incident
+1,652|6831|NYC / Hamburg

XP can't naively shrink a partition like vista can, but your fave partitioning software (gparted, acronis, ...) will be able to.

Once the partition is shrunk you can create a new one in the empty space
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Cheez
Herman is a warmaphrodite
+1,027|6702|King Of The Islands

The partition you want to split will need to be deleted and reformatted. Be careful you don't wipe the partition with the MFT/FAT table or you'll lose every partition.
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CosmoKramer
CC you in October
+131|6882|Medford, WI

max wrote:

XP can't naively shrink a partition like vista can, but your fave partitioning software (gparted, acronis, ...) will be able to.

Once the partition is shrunk you can create a new one in the empty space
alright so i can run gparted, and use the extra space to make a new drive for windows 7?
max
Vela Incident
+1,652|6831|NYC / Hamburg

You can make a new partition.

To make a new drive you'll need a factory
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot  xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
CosmoKramer
CC you in October
+131|6882|Medford, WI

max wrote:

You can make a new partition.

To make a new drive you'll need a factory
damnit i see what you did there
Catbox
forgiveness
+505|6980
you could also use microsoft virtual PC or VMware player and run windows 7 virtually...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downlo … fault.mspx
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/ … 7-sp1.aspx

I did it on a computer with XP and it worked great... it was an older p4 2gb ram and onboard graphics... was a little sluggish... upped the ram to 768mb on the virtual machine...
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CosmoKramer
CC you in October
+131|6882|Medford, WI

[TUF]Catbox wrote:

you could also use microsoft virtual PC or VMware player and run windows 7 virtually...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downlo … fault.mspx
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/ … 7-sp1.aspx

I did it on a computer with XP and it worked great... it was an older p4 2gb ram and onboard graphics... was a little sluggish... upped the ram to 768mb on the virtual machine...
is there going to be a major difference if i do it virtually?
CrazeD
Member
+368|6936|Maine

[TUF]Catbox wrote:

you could also use microsoft virtual PC or VMware player and run windows 7 virtually...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downlo … fault.mspx
http://www.vmware.com/download/player/

http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/ … 7-sp1.aspx

I did it on a computer with XP and it worked great... it was an older p4 2gb ram and onboard graphics... was a little sluggish... upped the ram to 768mb on the virtual machine...
Definitely use VMWare.

Virtual PC sucks balls in comparison.

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