Can I edit my Recovery disk?

I bought a new laptop (Everex Stepnote XT5000T) and it came with a recovery disk when I use the disk to install Windows Vista it splits the 100gb hard drive into two 50 gig partitions and doesnt give me any option. I want to make this laptop dual boot XP and Vista, I figured out what I need to do to dual boot it but what I would like to do is have it partitioned 75gb on drive C and 25 gb on drive D and have XP on drive C. The only thing I can think of is to edit the recovery cd to change the partition size but I have no idea how to do this. Its not very important that XP is on drive C but I would like to have it 75/25. I tried partition magic but I get an error message "init. failed: error 117 partitions drive letters cannot be identified"
Thanks in advance!

 

Welcome to Major Geeks.:major

A suggestion, maybe contact the manufacturers of Everex, or the place where you bought it from, and tell them you want a new recovery disk with your preferences, or maybe without any partitioning at all.

Then you can use Partitioning Software to split it how you like.

Drive Utlities that may help you are at http://www.majorgeeks.com/downloads8.html

Some are $$$$, some are Free. Your choice.

Also check out MG Must have Free downloads
http://www.majorgeeks.com/page.php?id=20
for lots of other good FREE stuff.
Bazza

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