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| | Re: free partitioning software--Ranish for this prob. Yep-- which is the usual scenario here because people are trying to install Vista and often don't have the extra box or HD--so Ranish would be ideal. XP DMgmt is not fault tolerant--and he wants to dual boot and doesn't of course have Vista on the box so can't use it's DM. http://www.ranish.com/part/ This works well. CH "Mark D. VandenBeg" <mvan103@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:OvQJ09NrGHA.2440@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "Alan Simpson" <Nospam@nothanks.com> wrote in message > news:A79CDD41-8B13-4BF5-BE70-96D60372F337@microsoft.com... >> You don't really need to buy anything to partition and format drives. You >> can use the Disk Management tool in Vista or XP. > > Doesn't the XP version wipe the data when partitioning and resizing? > Although not very clear in the post, I assume the OP currently has an XP > box with one hard drive and wants to partition the drive to install Vista > without spending any money. > |
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