Help partitioning Vista laptop? What programme?

rossyl · 17 Feb 2009 at 15:51

I've got Vista running on my vaio - however it's not near as quick as it would be on XP and the graphics aren't great.

I want to keep Vista, and install XP on another partition.

So
- create a partition; and
- dual boot.

What programmes are the best and most stable to do this?

Thank you.

monkeyspank · 17 Feb 2009 at 16:02

Type 'partition' into the search box on vista start menu

i think
or do it from right click MY COMPUTER, select manage and then disk management

theheyes · 17 Feb 2009 at 16:08

The latter, and make sure you back up your data before you try it.

rossyl · 17 Feb 2009 at 16:31

Wow - never knew Vista had that functionality - don't I look silly.

Might defrag first. Then partition.

XP will then be quite easy to install.

monkeyspank · 17 Feb 2009 at 17:13

Not sure about that. The way to do it properly would be XP then Vista, but I have never tried. Vista might be clever enough to not let the XP install mess about with the Vista boot loader

rossyl · 17 Feb 2009 at 17:20

oh great!...

any ideas?

jbloggs · 18 Feb 2009 at 12:49

You may find the Vista partitioning tool will not be able to make the size of partition you want for XP, so if this is the case try gParted Live CD. Once the partition is created, install XP in the normal manner, once installed download and install EasyBCD (which also requires .NETFramework 2) on your XP install, follow This guide to sort out the Vista bootloader using EasyBCD...