Swapping Partitions
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From: MJMIII on 31 Jan 2010 18:30 "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:xko9n.4810$pv.1780(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > "MJMIII" <balrog(a)castaway.net> wrote in message > news:xaydnWwiRM13k_vWnZ2dnUVZ_sCdnZ2d(a)giganews.com... >>> >> I got there, but I didn't realize BING installed on Dell's 63mb >> diagnostic partition at the beginning of the 600GB drive. >> >> View Mbr beside Vista it says: >> Partition Active 149997mb HPFS/NTFS >> >> Properties for Vista: >> Starting Ending LBA >> Sectors >> C H S C H S >> 129024 307194426 >> 8 8 1 1023 254 63 > > > LOL. Installing BING to the Dell partition shouldn't have happened but > it's no big deal. We can fix it when everything is finished. Or leave it > alone. Which Dell is it? I'm using a Dell 9150 at present. XPS 630i > Yes, that starting sector offset is 2048 sector aligned. 129024/2048 is an > integer. As expected. >
From: Brian K on 31 Jan 2010 18:43 "MJMIII" < > XPS 630i > Nice. I'm still waiting on a few replies to my questions. You are doing well. BING is such an intimidating app until you get used to its ways. I looked again at that link on how to separate the OS and I think we'll have to do it while Win7 is still on the second HD. In the article the drive letters were C: and : but yours will be Z: and C: Confirm this carefully before you proceed. I know you have Acronis images of both OS so in the unlikely event of a big stuffup, you can get back to square one.
From: MJMIII on 31 Jan 2010 19:34 "Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:LAo9n.4818$pv.58(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > "MJMIII" < > >> XPS 630i >> > > > > Nice. > I'm still waiting on a few replies to my questions. You are doing well. > BING is such an intimidating app until you get used to its ways. > > I looked again at that link on how to separate the OS and I think we'll > have to do it while Win7 is still on the second HD. In the article the > drive letters were C: and : but yours will be Z: and C: Confirm this > carefully before you proceed. > > I know you have Acronis images of both OS so in the unlikely event of a > big stuffup, you can get back to square one. Are you waiting for replies from me?
From: Brian K on 31 Jan 2010 19:58 "MJMIII" <> Are you waiting for replies from me? > Yes.... You should already have a Boot Item for Vista. What is in the MBR Details on the right. Now we are both confused. Unallocated space is not a partition. Its other name is unpartitioned free space. So it can't have a drive letter. Ever. When you look in Disk Management, how is the 450 GB area described? When you look in BING, how is the 450 GB area described?
From: MJMIII on 31 Jan 2010 20:16
"Brian K" <remove_this(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4Hp9n.4825$pv.1040(a)news-server.bigpond.net.au... > > "MJMIII" <> Are you waiting for replies from me? >> > > > Yes.... > > > > You should already have a Boot Item for Vista. What is in the MBR Details > on > the right. I didn't see any information on the right side of the screen. On what screen should I see MBR details? > Now we are both confused. Unallocated space is not a partition. Its other > name is unpartitioned free space. So it can't have a drive letter. Ever. Fixed. I deleted the partition then recreated it as 450GB unallocated. That's how it now shows in Disk Management and Bing. > When you look in Disk Management, how is the 450 GB area described? > When you look in BING, how is the 450 GB area described? See above. -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you." |