Hello,

I have XP on my C drive and i have another spare 200GB HD attached
internally to the PC, is shows up as drive S.

What i'm wanting to know is:

I have some backup files on the spare S drive (about 150GB worth),
leaving 50GB spare on it.

1) Can i put a partition on spare drive S without losing the 150GB worth
of backup files i already have on there ? (so it will become 160GB
(backup) / 40GB partitioned)

2) There is 150GB worth of backup, so if i partition it to 160GB (backup
stuff) and 40GB spare, can i then put Windows Vista on the partitioned
40GB bit of the HD and choose my operating system on startup ? ie. have
a choice on start up whether to go into XP or Vista ?

3) If i later decide i want more than the 40GB partitioned on the Vista
Partition, can i move all the backup (150GB) stuff to a different HD and
then repartition to say 100GB / 100GB without losing Vista ?

Best Regards,
Andrew

Re: Partitioning ? by David

David
Wed Apr 30 12:51:08 PDT 2008

This group is for Windows Media Center issues, repost to a relevant Vista
group.

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"Andy" <andyNOSPAM@apple100.NOSPAMfreeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have XP on my C drive and i have another spare 200GB HD attached
> internally to the PC, is shows up as drive S.
>
> What i'm wanting to know is:
>
> I have some backup files on the spare S drive (about 150GB worth),
> leaving 50GB spare on it.
>
> 1) Can i put a partition on spare drive S without losing the 150GB worth
> of backup files i already have on there ? (so it will become 160GB
> (backup) / 40GB partitioned)
>
> 2) There is 150GB worth of backup, so if i partition it to 160GB (backup
> stuff) and 40GB spare, can i then put Windows Vista on the partitioned
> 40GB bit of the HD and choose my operating system on startup ? ie. have
> a choice on start up whether to go into XP or Vista ?
>
> 3) If i later decide i want more than the 40GB partitioned on the Vista
> Partition, can i move all the backup (150GB) stuff to a different HD and
> then repartition to say 100GB / 100GB without losing Vista ?
>
> Best Regards,
> Andrew