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So I have a program I want to use but I need XP to run it.  I don't have enough space to partition, so I'm thinking I'll install another HD SOLELY for this prog and XP.     Is this a good idea?   Is there anything a noob could mess up doing this?  My buddy is going to help, he has a little experience from building his machine, but If I mess this up, my wife would make my life *censored*.   Any cautionary advice???  It's not under warranty.   

cant you just like make this drive an additonal space in such that you can just put stuff on it you want then that should leave space for the program you want.  Also the other ways possible but that means that you would have to change the drive back over afterwards.  If you do change the drive make sure your grounded to the case as this could have esd charge an then kill the machine WITHOUT doing it.If the second Drive is D:
Then you can ask some programs to install on the D:
instead of the C:

Also, you can more My Documents to the D:
drive and free up space on C:
Video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/559885/how_to_move_my_documents/good call didnt think of that.thanks squall and Geek.   I'll check that vid out later today. 

I was reticent to do that though that because it involves reformatting the VISTA drive, AFAIK.  D is Recovery for me.  I found VistaBootPro which makes partitioning look easy.  But I only have 16 of 103 gigs free.  The xtra HD is 60g.   How free is the flow of information between the OS disc and the My Documents storage disc?  Can I put apps from Vista and XP on it? Quote

How free is the flow of information between the OS disc and the My Documents storage disc?

Perhaps a speed improvement. Quote
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But I only have 16 of 103 gigs free.  The xtra HD is 60g.

You are already hurting your Windows performance at these numbers...patio:  and how do I free up space?  I don't know what takes up all that space.  My wife says the fella we bought it from already reformatted with a partition.  We have no idea what's in that partition. 

as per my dilemma:


http://www.pronetworks.org/forums/install-windows-xp-in-a-dual-boot-with-pre-installed-windows-vista-t88231.html

"USER BEWARE: CHECK WITH YOUR SYSTEM MANUFACTURER WHETHER OR NOT YOUR WARRANTY IS VOIDED IF YOU INSTALL AND DUAL BOOT WITH WINDOWS XP. MANY OF THE NEWER SYSTEMS ARE DESIGNED AND CONFIGURED TO ONLY RUN WINDOWS VISTA. HARDWARE ON YOUR SYSTEM MAY NOT BE DESIGNED TO RUN WINDOWS XP"

Warranty is void...I don't know how to find out if I  have that type of puter.  I'd make a wager that it is. Quote
You are already hurting your Windows performance at these numbers...
That's number one.

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I have a program I want to use but I need XP to run it
Why not to install it in XP compatibility mode? there is a program that can be ran to see that an see how big its takeing up the space.  The only thing is it takes space.  The biggest things that use space is auido an video files.Did he go to Add/Remove programs and list by frequency of use?
Or list by Size?
Remove whatever is big, seldom USED and unwanted.
Hm... That might include some Office programs! i dont know about that but yeah thats something else he should look for.  If you seldomly use a program remove it.  Should free up like 20 gb give or take the size of it.


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