Vista Beta

[Tom.]

For Vista Beta will i need to have a partiton on my hard disk or can i install it straight from the ISO

Thanks in advance
Tom

[ctjoyce]

You need to creat a new prtition. Installing on the same one as your XP will lead to problems. I found this out the hard way. Also just to warn you there arn't many drivers out for Vista, mostly just the ones MS includes and graphics drivers. Useing a Beta build of vista as a primary OS is not a good idea. Also just to warn you bring any files you want from XP on a disk to Vista. They don't like swapping files between eachother.

Cheers
Cameron

[Tom.]

Can i partion my disk using the XP setup without losing any data?

[ctjoyce]

You can, however I suggest a program like partition magic. Its much easier. Also just to let you know that Vista uses 14~16GB so make sure you have the room.

Cheers
Cameron

[NicksFXHouse]

Can i partion my disk using the XP setup without losing any data?

I would not do that with this release ... unlike the last release this one MAY wipe out the drive unless you PRE PARTITION the drive using software such as partition magic.

[EirePlane]

You might be better off taking a lok at what file system you are using first. As far as I am aware, there is no way to alter the size of an NTFS partition. this is what most installations of Windows XP use. Some however will have a FAT32 system. these can be resized by either using the computer management tools in the control panel (As far as I know) or using a utility such as the one ctjoyce suggested
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Mitchel