partitioning vista\7

[crew51m]

I am going with 7, but I want to keep my vista part. One thing, I have Ubuntu on the other partition, with grub as the loader, can i use the win7 as the loader? can I keep my vista part, and format the rest with the win7 disk for windows 7? My vista part is 200gb, does win7 have a program to adjust the part size? I would like to shrink the vista and use the rest for 7.

 

[gregrocker]

Use Vista Disk Management to shrink Vista partition to where you want it.

Then boot into Win7 DVD, select "COnnect to Internet during Installation" to get latest drivers/Updates during installation (more later via Windows Updates)

Then select Custom install>Advanced Drive tools

Delete Ubuntu partition and use unallocated space to create New partition for Win7, format and install.

THis should delete the GRUB with Ubuntu, but if you want to make sure GRUB is overwritten use Diskpart from the Win7 DVD first to zero out the Ubuntu partition:

Boot DVD>Repair console>Recovery tools, open Command Line, type:

DISKPART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK # (for vista/ubuntu disk)
LIST PARTITION
SELECT PARTITION # (for Ubuntu partition: BE CERTAIN!)
CLEAN ALL (to zero Ubuntu partition)
EXIT

 

[crew51m]

Thanks.