Do you know any good free partition software that you can do form windows

Do you know any good free partition software that you can do form windows so you can have dual boot Xp and Vista. I don't want to pay 70 bucks for Norton PartitionMagic 8.0. Thanks

 

Do you have Vista pre-installed on a built system?

 

No i have xp right now on it i have the vista disk right in front of me. The pc came with xp

 

That's easy then since you format all the time. Divide your disk say 20GB for XP and 50GB for Vista and partition the rest for your data. Very easy to do on a clean disk from the CD/DVD

Just install XP first, otherwise you'll have trouble with Vista's boot manager.

 

Thats the problem i don't have an XP disk. I just have a vista disk my pc is preebilt

 

am i screwed? Do i have to buy the software?

 

Try Cute Partition Manager, a couple of people I know liked it but they weren't installing Vista though. Give it a shot if you have some time to spare as Vista doesn't play well with partition managers. I can't try it as I only have this one PC and can't risk it.

 

Tryed that didn't work

 

Too bad but don't spend bucks for PM or Acronis, not yet anyways as they are not Vista friendly. What kind of system you do have? That may help.

 

Compaq

 

I'll look around for you. There must be a way besides the money route which may not even work in the first place.

 

ok thank you

 

Maybe this, http://apcmag.com/5023/dual_booting_xp_with_vista

Steve

 

Tryed that. It just messed up my HD so i had to format and reinstall windows

 

That's no good.......won't link that one anymore.

Steve

 

I will try that one more time and if it docent work ill try something else. I can always reinstall windows

 

No it didn't work. It made a partition but then my vista DVD wouldn't boot up it said loading files then copyright Microsoft then it went to a blank screan

 

I got dual boot to work. I can now boot into XP and Vista. I used DISKPART. It works YAY so happy lol