Partition Question

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Martin Racette

Hi,

I have installed Vista Ultimate x64 on the same HDD as my XP installation,
just on an other partition. Now I would like to recover the space from the
old XP partition and integrated it to the Vista's, I'm using Acronis
DiskDirector 10, and I know how to do this, my problem is that the active
partition now is the XP's, and I would like to know how it will affect the
booting in Vista once I removed the XP partition

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Since the XP partition is active, it has the boot files you need to start
Vista. You can do a repair startup from the install disk to put them on the
Vista partition after you make it the active partition.
 
Acronis Disk Director is not compatible with Vista.
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And that's why I did some non-destructive partitioning using GParted
recently (although Windows was confused about the MBR afterwards and I
then had to do a repair from the Windows DVD (which was very quick and
easy).

I'd suggest using GParted or QTParted. They are Linux Partitioning
Utiliites very similar to Norton Partition Magic and they're free.

They can be found on any number of Linux Live CDs.

I'd recommend (in order of preference).

Knoppix. (QTParted [and GParted -- I think])

http://www.knoppix.net

System Rescue CD (GParted only)

http://www.sysresccd.org

I prefer Knoppix only because it is a full-blown Linux distribution
which also includes extra utilities designed to rescue Linux AND
Windows installations.

SystemRescueCD is a Linux distro that only has the rescue stuff.

Either works great though.

Neither requires hard drive installation, but you have to be able to
boot from your DVD/CD drive (this can be fixed in your BIOS setup if
need be). Live CDs run off your CD/DVD drive (hence the name). They
are free (as no cost) (and free as in open source).

About the only "gotcha" is that you'll need to burn the images to disk
after downloading (and Windows doesn't have software for that. You
need third party software).

However... I'm not sure that what you're wanting to do will work in
this case, but you can try it. Just as in Acronis, the changes aren't
made till you click the "commit" button.

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I don't know where you got your information, because DiskDirector 10.0 was
already working perfectly with the Betas, and it is still working

I did used it to erased the partition mentioned before and the only thing
that I had to do was to use the installation DVD to re-create the proper
boot information for Vista

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Martin said:
I don't know where you got your information, because DiskDirector 10.0
was already working perfectly with the Betas, and it is still working

I did used it to erased the partition mentioned before and the only
thing that I had to do was to use the installation DVD to re-create the
proper boot information for Vista
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Well, Acronis says it's not compatible. What I found is that DD is
perfect for repartitioning, but it should *not* be used to format a
new Vista partition. Use DD to repartition, but let the Vista install
disk (re)format the new partition during installation.
 
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