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| 774427 | 2009-05-16 13:10:00 | will it be alright to have win 7 and vista on the same hard drive after i partition it,as it says on the microsoft web site not to do this if it is alright will vista boot up first or will win 7 |
newbee (10498) | ||
| 774428 | 2009-05-16 13:17:00 | You'll have an option to boot from either. Nothing wrong with putting 2 Os's on 2 partitions. Thats what you usually do | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 774429 | 2009-05-16 13:36:00 | That should be fine...just make a partition for Windows 7 and install it on that. What you shouldn't do is install on the same partition as vista. When you boot up the Windows Bootloader will give you two options, Vista, or 7 You can configure timeout settings/titles etc from msconfig Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 774430 | 2009-05-16 23:13:00 | it works perfect - Thats how I have this setup. Vista on one partition, W7 on another. Even had to do a Recovery from my WHS the other day for Vista - went fine. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 774431 | 2009-05-16 23:32:00 | choice thanks for your's help one last Q is EASEUS Partition Master 3.5 Home Edition any good at partitioning hard drives as this is the first go at doing this and is 20 gig enuff to play around with win 7 |
newbee (10498) | ||
| 774432 | 2009-05-16 23:42:00 | EASEUS Partition Master should work Fine, but use the Bootable CD, dont resize from within windows. As always - back up any data first, just in case something goes wrong. What would be a safer bet is if you have a spare HDD and load W7 on that, then when starting up, you have W7 and Vista to select from, W7 will be the default OS to load first. As for 20Gb -- NOPE, wouldn't advise it. On mine I have W7 and just a couple of programs, Office 2007, Paragon Disk Manager (was playing with it) Ccleaner, My Accounting software and the virtual XP - and that takes up 25GB Heres the Basic Spec's: 1GHz processor (32- or 64-bit) 1GB of main memory 16GB of available disk space Support for DX9 graphics with 128MB of memory (for the Aero interface) Recomended at least 16GB just for the OS - so doesn't leave much room for anything else if at 20GB |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 774433 | 2009-05-17 00:50:00 | +1, give it 30gb at least. If you're just playing around, 20gb will be enough, otherwise I'd recommend something bigger Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 774434 | 2009-05-17 04:00:00 | cool might go with about 25 gig as am i am just playing around to see what its like re: Bootable CD for EASEUS Partition Master it is only on the paid versions not the free one , any clues for a good free one cheers |
newbee (10498) | ||
| 774435 | 2009-05-17 04:05:00 | Download Gparted: sourceforge.net Burn the iso to a CD, boot from it and resize as you wish Backup your data first incase something goes wrong Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 774436 | 2009-05-17 04:05:00 | gparted in linux distro's or the inbuilt Vista one | gary67 (56) | ||
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