acnuts Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Hello,I have a couple of questions regarding dual booting my Laptop:What (bootloader?) do I need to dual boot my laptop with two copies of Vista Business (each on it's own partition on same HDD)?And, is Gparted the best tool for resizing and adding a parition to my Vista HDD?If this description is too brief, please ask for more details!!Cheers,Donald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dovdo Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) Bootmanager: Buy BootUShttp://www.boot-us.com/Choose True hide primary partition automaticallyIt's the best!For resizing partitions, use Acronis productsCheers Edited October 13, 2008 by dovdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviv00 Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) i duno if its possible but here a way that might workrename windows folder to win and the rest of the os's foldersinstall again and then use easyboot and bcdedit to update/add win folderps try using unattain and change the program folder Edited October 13, 2008 by aviv00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 As long as you have two installations on two separate partitions and you want each one to "see" each other, you need NO third party bootmanager.Read here:http://www.multibooters.co.uk/almost any possible scanario is coveredThere are NO "best" tools to do anything, there are tools that work, and tools that do not, tools that are freeware and tools that are commercial, each has it's own plus and minus, often it is just a matter of personal preferences or traditional familiarity with one app or the other.Gparted is a good Freeware app, Acronis is a good commercial one, there are others.Be VERY aware of this:http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.phpWARNING: Working on a hard disk or on partitions is not child's play,If you do not have the skills, you should get help by persons authorized and competent.It is prudent and advisable to make a backup of your data,and also the structure of your entire hard drive first.Clonezilla, for example, allows this kind of preliminary operation.This software is under development. You can help us, by reporting bugs and difficulties you are experiencing.You use it at your own risk.the above applies to ANY tool.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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