Partition And Install an OS.

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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I have a 500gb hdd.

I want to partition half of it. And have one partition be backup from another hdd.
And the other, I want vista on it.


I wont need a lot for vista. Just space for H2V and some to spare.


How would I go about doing this?




Thanks
 
If there is nothing on the hard drive yet, then when you install Vista you can have it create multiple partitions during the install, so you can have one for Vista and one for backups.
 
How would the partitions work when installing vista? It would be possible to install another os on those partitions or would those partitions basically be part of vista in a way?
 
ezefosure said:
How would the partitions work when installing vista? It would be possible to install another os on those partitions or would those partitions basically be part of vista in a way?
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If you create partitions using the disk management utility during the Vista install, it will work just like creating partition in Partition Magic or any other way. Say when your installing Vista, you create three partitions. One for Vista, one for backups, and one for video storage. All three will act like 3 separate hard drives, so you can install any OS you want on any of the partitions.
 
To install any OS on a second or third partition it should be a primary type not extended. Linux can get away with extended for some distros while any MS version will require a primary. GParted can only make but not format NTFS type partitions while Vista now can create or delete even format and even resize partitions when booting from the installation disk.

Once you have the first primary created Vista willl install to that. For dual booting XP there are a few articles that detail this. If you have XP or another older version of Windows on another hard drive Vista will install it's own boot loader there abd add that into it's "previous version of Windows" option seen at boot time. It's far easier to install the older version first on a 2nd or 3rd partition to see that added into the boot options.

When XP Pro was added after Vista here you couldn't add it in with a manual BCD edit, VistaBootPRO, or EasyBCD. Both of these tools are freewares with EasyBCD being the better choice. The links here should be helpful on this to some degree. The MS TechNet article for the BCD boot editor is seen at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...c349-427c-b035-c2719d4af7781033.mspx?mfr=true

For dual booting Vista with XP, http://vistafaqs.com/viewfaq.aspx?faq=73

And the freeware that has seen the best results is EasyBCD found at http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/easybcd-15-multidual-boot-vista-linux-mac-os-x-bsd/ With EasyBCD here's one thing Simon@Linux will like namely being able to multiboot with Mac, Linux, or UNIX.
 
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