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UB hans gunsche

are there any tools i can use to resize an existing windows partition. i mainly just want to run dual boot with vista 64bit and xp pro. what would be the best way of going about to do this?

Ion Todirel
buuu

Windows? a google on "resize partition Vista" will do it

figuerres
???

you can lookup "Partition Commander" I have used that in the past.

there are several others, most of them have a boot-cd that you run so that the boot partition is not locked by windows.

there is also "drive copy" ... and at least 2 or two others...

some of them include a boot-menu you can use to select multiple boots like Linux, SUN, OS/2, DOS etc....

I do not know what they want today but in the past they were around 30-50 bucks and you could buy them on-line and download a version that would make a disk, generaly less than 100 Megs dl size.

hth

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

In xp/vista/2003 you can use DISKPART command line tool and use the EXTEND command to enlarge, but it's no use if you want to shrink a partition.

Problem is that it will not work if the drive is in use. I normally boot off a WinPE disk or ERD Commander to do it, but you can also pull the drive and stick in in another machine or as your already dual boot,boot to the other partion and use that.

ZippyV
Fired Up

Why don't you use Virtual PC?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to ZippyV

#Apr 30th @ 4:40 AM

3D acceleration support?

figuerres
???

In reply to ZippyV

#Apr 30th @ 4:40 AM

lack of support for many kinds of hardware

also you can't run some software in a VPC

for example at one point i needed to run the VS 2003 device emulator for old Win CE stuff.
could not install it on the normal windows I was running due to other stuff that would not mix.

there are reasons sometimes vpc can't do it.