I'm confused???

[Bluerinse]

Great stuff

[Obinna Osobalu]

Originally Posted by Dullage

I should know this (being A+ certified and all) but I'm a bit confused with the following...

I'm trying to create a new partition on my hard drive (Vista Premium) so I can load XP (Spent hours building a 2k3 server to find Vista Premium doesn't support domains! ). I currently have 3 partitions:

EISA Config - Recovery (10gb, Primary) - OS (220.08gb Primary)

and 2.64gb of unallocated space (Ready for the XP partition). Now the disk is set as a Basic Disk but when I right click the unallocated space it only gives me the option to set up a new Simple Volume.

I thought Dynamic Disks used volumes and Basic Disks used Primary and Extended partitions?

I'm probably missing something obvious here, anybody know what I'm doing/interpreting wrong?

i normally suggest to people dat wenever they want to multiboot they shld mk use of VMware(it simulates at a minimum the instruction set of the computer it emulates and presents the apperance to the user of a differnt computer) tech in dat case u dont need to partition ur harddrive and also u can b able to run multiple OS at the same time instead of choosin a particular OS at the boot prompt. am presently runnin a VMware on my Vista Home Premium on which i installed UBUNTU, XP & WINDOWS 2003 SERVER ENTERPRISE EDITION. NOTE THAT VMware 5.0 will not install on Vista but only on Xp but VMware 6.0 will install on Vista. hp this helps.

[Dullage]

Originally Posted by Obinna Osobalu

i normally suggest to people dat wenever they want to multiboot they shld mk use of VMware(it simulates at a minimum the instruction set of the computer it emulates and presents the apperance to the user of a differnt computer) tech in dat case u dont need to partition ur harddrive and also u can b able to run multiple OS at the same time instead of choosin a particular OS at the boot prompt. am presently runnin a VMware on my Vista Home Premium on which i installed UBUNTU, XP & WINDOWS 2003 SERVER ENTERPRISE EDITION. NOTE THAT VMware 5.0 will not install on Vista but only on Xp but VMware 6.0 will install on Vista. hp this helps.

I was considering VM but to be honest it was nice to get some experience in duel booting. I have a book on Virtualisation which I shall be reading up on after my N+ in a couple of weeks. Cheers for the advice anywho

[Teebor]

I used to use Partition Magic many years ago (I don't know if it is still around today)

This was really good as you could easily create and manage multiple partitions, and iirc you could resize partitions without loosing the data.

Also made multi-boot machines easy to create and use as well. Might be worth having a look if it is still available to buy as it was great

[Dullage]

Originally Posted by Teebor

I used to use Partition Magic many years ago (I don't know if it is still around today)

This was really good as you could easily create and manage multiple partitions, and iirc you could resize partitions without loosing the data.

Also made multi-boot machines easy to create and use as well. Might be worth having a look if it is still available to buy as it was great

Yeah, I seem to remember using Partition Magic a few years ago, Vista's supposed to be really good for non-destructive partitioning though so I stuck with that.