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just hangs for its been like 5 mins still nothing so I will try the other idea.
Are you sure you have used this disk before to successfully install?
Where did you get the download? Did you check its hash checksum to verify?
Partition Wizard is an excellent program and can do much more that Disk Management. The bootable CD will be very nice to have.
You can try Disk Management if you want, first shrink C to about 436GB, then delete D, make a new primary partition in the un-allocated space. Should be 30GB, you'll need this space to let XP run with a few programs, as Minotar mentioned.
If you have a 4GB usb stick you can put XP on it and install from it.
Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool
Or try Install Windows 7 Without Using Any External Device, this will work from a XP ISO file.
Yeah you can use Disk Management fine
Hi how much should I shrink My C:/ i cant put 436GB
I only want to put 20 GB on there All I want to do I just run a little program on there because I dont have 32 bit operating system thats all i want to do.
As much as you want.
Now that you say you only need XP on there to run 32 bit, how about just putting 32bit Win7 on there? You should have the disk in your package, and it should allow install and activation on the same computer.
Someone can please correct me if I am wrong, but I saw on this forum today that you can install Win7 dual boot on the same computer and keep activated with no problem?
Even if you only run it as a 30 day trial, you could compare the two side by side to decide which you like best. I have bailed out of 64 bit several times for buggyness.