Partitioning and vista

trainwizard · #1 05-02-2008, 11:01 PM

I hate Vista. So I am trying to downgrad my vista laptop to XP but I still want to keep vista and everything on it without reinstalling. But I can't seem to find a way to Partition the master in to two seperate chunks (no free unalloted space). Im not sure if I should use DOS, some third party program, or vista itself. Thanks for reading.

Disk_Contented · #2 05-03-2008, 04:58 PM

Any partition manager can do this. Acronis etc

xCrimsonXx · #3 05-09-2008, 10:58 AM

Try GParted. It's used my Linux and Windows. NTFS and FAT32 are able to be changed in every detail. Just burn the ISO to a CDR.

Embolism · #4 05-29-2008, 09:36 AM

Another great open source application for linux.

LynnKnows2 · #5 05-29-2008, 04:34 PM

You can also try a program called Partition Magic by Symantec. Good luck!

snowmonkey · #6 05-30-2008, 02:32 PM

Hey LynnKnows2,

Partition magic does not support the Vista file system and it's not compatible with vista.

http://www.symantec.com/norton/produ...d=sp&pvid=pm80

Gparted or Acronis or even Paragon Disk Manager can do the trick but not partition magic.

Cheers