1 Topic by snoopie

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Topic: Dual boot Vista and XP storage help.

Hello,

   I just performed a dual boot of XP and Vista. I only installed vista to run DirectX10 games.   I performed this by using this guide:

http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/post.php?fid=2

  I used Getting started with - Diskpart.

Though my question initially doesn't start with the gparted program, Im hoping it has something to do with it.....Anyways,  When I used the guide using Diskpart it splited my 1 hard drive(500gb) into 2 drives,  1 being windows XP (Which is 231gb now) and the other windows Vista(which is now 234gb) so now I have a C:\ and a E:\ drive (Vista 32bit being C:\ and XP 64 bit being E:\).  Im wanting to know if this is normal and If I was to install stuff to my C drive (which is vista) and boot on to XP then run it would it work correctly, or can I shrink my Vista C:\ Drive to a much slower size and just put everything I want in my E:\ drive?

Im hoping this isn't confusing for anything. So I took a picture if it helps...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/snoop22/Duelboot.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v628/ … elboot.jpg

2 Reply by class413

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Re: Dual boot Vista and XP storage help.

3 optical drives???

You can resize your partitions. You can shrink them with the vista diskpart program. I don't know if you can expand pratitions with it, or if you can move the starting point of a partition. Gparted livecd can expand or move partitions.

Another solution would be to shrink vista to the minimum and to make a new partition in the free space, that you couild use as a storage partition. But, be careful, you can make up to 4 principal partitions on the disk, and I don't know if there are other hidden partitions on the disk. So, please give me a screenshot from gparted or from the "disk management" console (where hidden partitions are visible too).


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