Compressing Windows Vista Home Premium

adaaro · 02-18-2009, 06:36 AM

I want to install WinXP on my laptop that came with Vista but retain Vista in another partition

Mikhalkov · 02-18-2009, 06:47 AM

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1) Click on the Start menu

2) Right click on Computer and click on Manage

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3) You may get a User Account Control dialog here; just click Continue

4) In the left pane, open up the Storage category and click on Disk Management

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5) Here, you will find your partitions for your disks. Right click on the partition you’d like to modify.

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6) Click on Extend Volume or Shrink Volume to extend or shrink the selected partition.

adaaro · 02-21-2009, 07:38 AM

Thanks alot

Blizz · 02-21-2009, 09:11 AM

Try Partition Magic or http://www.partition-manager.com/ (free trial) that is the easiest and best way to create partition for dual booting. I've run that the extend or shrink volume becomes tough to return if you ever decide to return back to Vista fully.

02-18-2009, 06:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
adaaro Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 4 OS: Vista Home Premium	Compressing Windows Vista Home Premium I want to install WinXP on my laptop that came with Vista but retain Vista in another partition

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adaaro Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 4 OS: Vista Home Premium	Re: Compressing Windows Vista Home Premium Thanks alot

02-21-2009, 09:11 AM	#4 (permalink)
Blizz Registered User Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Lorain,Ohio Posts: 12 OS: Win95,Win98,NT,XP,Vista,2000,2003,2008,Mac,Linux, Windows 7, and whatever else ;)	Re: Compressing Windows Vista Home Premium Try Partition Magic or http://www.partition-manager.com/ (free trial) that is the easiest and best way to create partition for dual booting. I've run that the extend or shrink volume becomes tough to return if you ever decide to return back to Vista fully.