-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partition Drive

Don,
    Thenk you for this.  With all of your recent experience, I suspect you 
are going to be a better assistant to tempting than I could be.  Of course, 
I'll continue to provide guides, direction & suggestions, but I'm also 
hoping that you will have the time and inclination to add to and better 
clarify them where ever you see fit.

Peace,
Gman

http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dsw32952" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 8:52 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Partition Drive


> Yes.  No.  Maybe.  Recovery disks recover a drive to its original
> state.  That means all partitions and other OS installations are wiped
> out.  Since you will be dual booting with Windows 7, this should not be
> a problem since it will be the newer OS and should be installed last.
>
> On my HP desktop with Vista Home Premium, when I try to partition the
> hard drive Vista refuses to release more than about half of the drive
> for new partitions.  On my 500GB drive it would let me have about 250GB
> to partition however I wanted.  According to HP this is exactly what all
> of their customers want.  I installed a 160GB drive and had to remove
> the 500GB drive in order to recover to it.  I then reinstalled the 500GB
> drive.  Again, this is the way all HP customers want their computers to
> work.  Once recovered to the 160GB drive I was able to partition it to
> about half of the drive.
>
> This partition limitation exists whether using the build in disk
> manager, ATI Disk Director Suite or the partitioning function available
> during OS installation.
>
> Don 

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