This has installed fine, only the 2 options on the boot menu. I have been informed though that if, when duel booting, you decided to remove it you cannot just format the drive. This will actually remove the boot menu and you will not be bale to boot into the other OS. I found these instructions on the "thinkdigit" forum, credit to the original poster.
Make sure you set the drive to be your optical drive and it works flawlessly. Thanks Chris for some great info. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Click Yes to reboot your machine and apply the changes. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week. I recently purchased a new Laptop for my hubby. It is a Toshiba running Windows 7.
Are there certain disks that one must use to make an image copy? If not, why would I get this type of message using a new, never used CD? Another free partitioning software is Partition Wizard which is very easy to use as well. I have a simailar situation gigabytes used from a total of gigabytes. We use a NAS to backup five computers, with two of them backed up on a weekly basis. What if the space recovered is NOT adjacent to the partition I want to expand?
Do the drives have to be identical in size and model? Re some questions: 1. Easeus has never failed me to date but they do recommend backing up first. Using Easeus it would seem you would have to shunt all your partitions around until that free space is adjacent.
I use Acronis in preference to Ghost but there are also free Linux applications that will do a complete HD image to any brand HD with sufficient space. Jim 1. In order to join partitions, they must be adjacent.
Then, copy the contents of your other partitions to a backup disk. Choose the partition on which Vista is installed and click "Delete" under advanced options. The partition will be formatted. If you want to install a fresh copy of Windows Vista, you can do so now. If not, exit windows setup and install whatever OS you want to use. You cannot expand the partition while Windows is running on it. You have to delete the partition in which it is installed and create a new one to install the new vista.
Disk Management. You can see that by right-clicking the drive C, D, E,.. No big deal. Remember the fact you have two operating systems each on separate partition.
Let's assume that Windows 7 is latest installed operating system. It means that Windows 7 is taking care of booting Windows. There will be two steps you need to do. First one, you should move all your important data from partition where Windows Vista is installed. After moving your data you should format the partition with Windows Vista. Windows 7 might not allow you to perform partition formatting because there is another Windows installed, I suggest using Windows DVD to perform formatting.
This is because booting information is located in Windows 7, this is your primary operating system and it takes care of booting Windows. Now we are going to modify boot information. Select Windows Vista record and hit. Log in. Windows XP. Windows Vista. Hard Disk Drives. Study now. See answer 1. Best Answer. Study guides. Computer Terminology 23 cards. What Microsoft OS is an upgrade of Windows Which file system is used by floppy disks.
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