kopman9 0 Report post Posted May 15, 2008 I have XP on my system and I want it to dual boot with vista. I sorta know the basics, however my HD already has a partition. I know you have to partition the HD one for xp and one for vista, what I want to know is, is there any way of RE-partitioning my HD with out completly reformating. Cheers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miles 0 Report post Posted May 15, 2008 Partitioning should never could loss of data. Anyways, you get a partition program, resize your main partition to about half it's original size, and create a new NTSF or FAT32 partition in the newly freed space. Install windows vista, and specify the new partition as where it should be installed.Not very hard at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wutske 0 Report post Posted May 19, 2008 You don't even need to get a program to re-partition your hard disk, the windows vista installer has a utility that can resize partitions (at last ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skedad 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2008 I heard that you cannot reformat a Vista hard drive without it seeing duplicate serial. I do have this laptop running Vista, but I have not reformatted this like I have my XP PC. I heard that Microsoft will already recognize the used serial code, and it would not let the reformat be legal...Anyways, working with dual booting, the recovery and startup disk should suffice when partitioning... whether using reformat or Admin Tools. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
xboxrulz1405241485 0 Report post Posted May 20, 2008 Formatting is legal as long as you reactivate it with Microsoft again. As for partitioning, you should have defragmented your filesystem before you partitioned it. The reason for the data loss is that some of the data went to the other partition and was formatted. It happens when you don't defrag the drive.xboxrulz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites