• Vista Partition Manager safe?
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I want to test out Windows 7 without going away from my beloved Vista :cop: Will Vista partition manager fuck up my PC? Here's a screenshot: [img]http://i.imagehost.org/0023/Capture_1.jpg[/img] That's about 250GB... should be enough So I just shrink, boot with my Win7 DVD, install onto that partition, and the dual boot will be OK? Will it affect my recovery partition? When I want to wipe Vista and just use 7 (99% sure it will happen), how do I get rid of Vista? Anyone got their Alienware AlienFX drivers for vista working on 7? Thanks in advance :c00l:
[QUOTE=CombineGuru;18078674]I want to test out Windows 7 without going away from my beloved Vista :cop: Will Vista partition manager fuck up my PC? [b]I've never had problems with it, of course I never tried it on a system partition so I don't know for sure.[/b] Here's a screenshot: [img_thumb]http://i.imagehost.org/0023/Capture_1.jpg[/img_thumb] That's about 250GB... should be enough So I just shrink, boot with my Win7 DVD, install onto that partition, and the dual boot will be OK? [b]Yes, 7 will automatically set up the dual boot[/b] Will it affect my recovery partition? [b]No[/b] When I want to wipe Vista and just use 7 (99% sure it will happen), how do I get rid of Vista? [b]Delete the Vista partition. Though I'm not sure if you can extend a partition from the beginning, you might have to live with a second partition.[/b] Anyone got their Alienware AlienFX drivers for vista working on 7? Thanks in advance :c00l:[/QUOTE] Answers in quote.
Thanks for the reply. Just spoke to a friend who said that deleting the Vista partition might mess up the bootloader. This true?
Roast Beast is correct in his answers in the quote. As for your Alienware AlienFX drivers. The Vista drivers will work in Windows 7 without a hitch. While 7 drivers are preferred, it will utilize Vista drivers. As for extending the partition left over from Vista if you do make the switch fully. I do believe you will need a program like Partition Magic to extend the empty partition onto the Windows 7 partition. If you delete the Vista partition, Windows 7 should automatically assume priority in boot and become the primary. I don't believe that it will affect the bootloader at all.
Even if it does effect the bootloader it's easy enough to fix, either with BCDEdit or in the worst case [url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392]Startup Repair or fixboot[/url].
Personally I wouldn't do online partition. By that I mean partitioning a disk that's already mounted and in use.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;18084626]Personally I wouldn't do online partition. By that I mean partitioning a disk that's already mounted and in use.[/QUOTE] I've done it plenty of times and nothing went wrong so I'd recommend it.
As long as you don't move the start point of your recovery partition, you'll probably be okay. I had a Medion laptop once that failed to ever use the build in restore system ever again after moving the recovery partition, and Medion wanted to charge me well over £50 to reinstall it when I checked how much it'd cost before I sold the laptop.
Can you not do it from the Vista/7 installer disk?
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