Vista and XP

[NotAGolf]

System setup atm:

C: (250gb) Windows XP install, my documents, program files etc
E: (160gb) Purely for storage, music games videos etc

I am getting Vista soon and I want to install it on my system but I have no idea how I would go about doing this. I'm guessing I would need to partition drives but again I've no idea how to do this. What's the best way to go about doing this? Will I have to format everything and backup data and start from scratch? Cheers guys.

 

[Cob]

If you want to keep XP, then Partition Magic (or similar) can shrink your XP partition and leave you space for a Vista partition. Vista will automatically write a new bootloader and give you a boot menu on boot-up.

Or you can just insert the Vista DVD and select the Upgrade option. Pretty much everything will remain.

Or back up any important files on C: and do a fresh install on C:.