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Vista Dual Boot
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Posted by: seabrightjw
Well I'm on my Gateway/ Custom rig. I just did a clean install on a new 200GB SATA WD2000, using Gateway restore disks. It automaticly set a partion and restore or recover partion FAT32 on the disk with the OS as regular file system. Belarc advisor shows Windows XP Media Center 2003 SP2. Everest shows Windows XP Professional Sp2. So I don't know what I have. Anyway, this mornings email has an invite to download Vistas newest version. I downloaded it and burned it to a DVD. How do I install it without loosing the OS I already have? It's only 6 hours old and media center stuff is pretty cool. Should I split the drive 100gb each partition? If so how do I do it? I'm a nuts and bolts type of guy so be as simple as you can with instructions please.
Posted by: rabidgecko
I don't know if you have a program for managing and editing partitions. When I had the same questions goranpaa recommended a great program called Acronis Disk Director. With that program you can manage and change your partitions without having to reinstall whatever OS is on the disk already. That program will get the job done for you.
If you are seriously into Vista (i.e. you're gonna buy it when it comes out and use that as primary OS)
then yes making a 100 GB partition will work fine. But if you are just gonna play around with Vista, to see what it's like then you should only make the partition as big as it needs to be. I made a 20 GB partition and i managed to fit Vista and Office 2007 Beta on there with about 6 GB left over.
Once you make that second partition for Vista, you can boot up, get into XP, and put in the DVD with the ISO image on it. You might be able to do it straight off boot, but thats not how I did it. Then as you go through the options of installing it will ask you which partition you want to install to, and choose the one without XP on it (duh :P). And you should be all set after that.
Posted by: seabrightjw
Thanks. I remembered the topic was addressed several months ago but really didn't pay attention. Thanks again
Posted by: DemonBob
The Knoppix Linux bootable CD has a program called qtparted witch will resize ntgfs partitions rator well, and it's free.
Posted by: pdnielsen
Also keep in mind that Vista beta might not let you set it up on a SATA drive at all. BSODs and so on are rather common and many mobo manufacturers have no drivers available that Vista setup will recognize. I would suggest if you can that you set up Vista on a separate IDE drive.
Posted by: seabrightjw
I think I'll wait a little while before I attempt it. New system seems very stable and flawless so far. Probably should leave well enough alone. Thanks for the advice.
Posted by: goranpaa
I would stay away from Vista until Vista alpha is released at least. And there are proper drivers availiable.
And anyway, you cant take full advantage of the graphics in Vista (DirectX 10). Until the DX 10 videocards is out.
Posted by: seabrightjw
I did take your advice on the Video card. My X800 ALL-IN-ONE and AVERMEDIA TV tuners didn't get along well together. Windows Media Center would activate the TV and the ATI unit would try and load also. I pulled it and put it in my daughters PC and she loves it. I purchased the NVIDIA 7300GT 512 PCIE card for the Gateway and it looks great. $104.99 at MICRO CENTERS. Haven't pushed yet but I will. New processor, RAM, HDD, HDD Cooler and card need a little burn in first. Thanks
Posted by: goranpaa
That's an interesting videocard. I know from reading some tests on the 7300GT, That it beats the 6600GT in most games.
And it's also a pretty good overclocker.
When Nvidia released the 7300GS, that whas the card before yours. They used a specially made GPU (Grapics Processor Unit), for that card.
But it got beaten by the Radeon budget card X1300. So they made 7300GT, based on the same core as 7600GT instead. Just a little slower, and with eight pixel pipelines, instead of 7600GT's 12 pipes.
The pro reviewers seemed to like the 7300GT quite a lot.
So you got a good bang for the buck there.
You're welcome.
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