creating partiton for w7 install help

ok currently on my system i have a 320gb hdd with just 1 partion that is 298gb with vista ultimate installed on it, is there any way i can split this into 2 partitions both 149gb so i can install w7 on the other? i tried using the vista disk management thing but the maximum it will let me shrink is like 84gb....

any help wld be greatly appreciated.

zigzag3143 said:

If win 7 will not let you do it, paragon disk suite 2009 will.

BTW the trial (30 days) if free.

Ken

i forgot to mention its vista x64 im using, will this program work on x64? i tried partition magic but when i tried to install it came up that it cldnt install on x64.

zigzag3143 said:

I used Partition magic as well but it doesnt work in either vista or win 7. Paragon may be 32 bit but there may be a 64bit version. If not you could try the 32 on it anyway

Let us know how it works

Ken

ok i just tried paragon and it gave me the message paragon cannot install on this OS

it appears that they do have an x64 version of theyre partition manager but only the 32 bit version has a free trial.

ok will give both methods a try,thanks again for the input guys.

misterck said:

ok currently on my system i have a 320gb hdd with just 1 partion that is 298gb with vista ultimate installed on it, is there any way i can split this into 2 partitions both 149gb so i can install w7 on the other? i tried using the vista disk management thing but the maximum it will let me shrink is like 84gb....

any help wld be greatly appreciated.

You will need to defrag your drive

You will find that there are so many fragments taking up space all over your hard drive that you will get small shrinkage. I've done this on a Vista lappy i fixed & almost doubled the space available to shrink.

Hope this helps :)




Jeff