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 --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------