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Old 07-16-2006   #1 (permalink)
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installing Vista in dual boot config

I want to install Vista beta 2 allongside XP MCE, I need to make a partition,
so I start from disk to try to do that, and it doesn't detect any hard
drives. I have two 160 gig hard drives RAIDed togather.

My System SpecsSystem Spec
Old 07-16-2006   #2 (permalink)
Rick Rogers


 
 

Re: installing Vista in dual boot config

Hi,

You'd need to load the RAID driver first if it is not natively detected. If
you don't have free space on the drive currently, you are going to need to
use a third party partitioning program to shrink the existing one first.
Recommend you allow at least 20GB of space for Vista, though you can do with
half that.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"PCDan3" <PCDan3@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to install Vista beta 2 allongside XP MCE, I need to make a
>partition,
> so I start from disk to try to do that, and it doesn't detect any hard
> drives. I have two 160 gig hard drives RAIDed togather.


My System SpecsSystem Spec
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