Partitions, Discs and Vista Questions

mattbrown91

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At the second I have a 250Gig drive and a 60Gig disc

250Gig
C:\ WindowsXP and stuff
W:\ Work and Data

60Gig
D:\ Backup of Data
P:\ Paging for windowsXP
V:\ Space for Vista (15Gig)

At the second i am booting off the 250 Gig drive and using the other disc as paging and backup.
Is there any problem with me disconnecting the 250 and setting the 60 as master and installing Vista on the V:\ ?

I'm just double checking to make sure I dont mess anything up.

Is 15 Gig big enough for Vista and it's pagefile ?
 
having the same concerns at the moment.

from what bits i've read so far it appears to be better to have vista and xp on the same disk, something to do with vista over writing the boot details or something like that.

would suggest a bit more space , as the only space mentioned for vista is 15gb , not sure how much u're likely to need for the page file.
 
Create a primary partition on your big drive of about 25-30gb. Load WinXP, put in the Vista disc. Install Vista.

When you reboot you will have the option to boot Windows (vista) or an earlier version of windows (xp), it will load Vista by default after 30 seconds.
 
Worked fine for me. Version 8.0.

Edit: Actually no it didn't. I used the windows program not the DOS one and it failed the first time. Do each step seperatly and it works.
 
I am now resizing my C:\ so there is room on the disc for the Vista partition.

I presume i want to make it a primary partition rather than logical
 
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