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War of Attrition with my Partition, it’s doin' my head
Hi all,
RC 7100, HD 350 GB HD
I need advise please. I wish to create a small partition of 50GB.
I followed Brink’s tutorial in creating a partition but it ain’t happening for me.
In disk management, I don’t get right click then "click New Simple Volume" I get, see screen shot 1.
Is it my understanding however that first I have to shrink "C" ( my HD ) by 50gb.
If that is the case, see screen shot 2, what is 50GB in MBs, what figure do I put in?
Having shrunk "C" is it then simply a case of just starting over, right clicking unallocated region on your hard disk, then click New Simple Volume and follow the wizard?
( by shrinking will I affect my existing Win 7 OS and any software installed, cos' I got the OS and Apps' working pretty much as I want it.)
I’ve had to bite the bullet, my only reason for creating a partition is because I wish to install my retail version of XP home, which is a 32 bit OS.
I have decided to do without the XP mode in Win 7 and do everything I could to get old software to operate under Win 7 and I’ve managed pretty well so far, updating, playing or delving around as required.
However there are two programs I can’t manage without, that will not install using WIN 7 or 64 bit XP mode, hence the partition.
But am I understanding correctly, my existing OS is Win 7 64 bit, the partition I will create I wish to install 32 bit XP home, will it install?
Is 50GB enough for XP Home and two tiny programs?