A good running XP install, buy a new hard drive, then set up Vista on it as a slave- or dual booting alternate-that way in a week or so when you have gnashed your last molar flat, you remove the Vista drive and congratulate yourself at not mucking your XP up..
I have a 160 GB drive with XP on a 100GB partition and a 60 GB storage partition (image backups, ASR backup, etc). Is there any software (preferably free) that will allow me to "Shrink" my XP install enough to use GParted to create a third partition big enough for a Vista install (on a D: partition). Or can I just back up to ASR on my backup partition, use GParted to re-create C: and D: partitions, and then recover my C: partition from ASR? Does ASR let me recover to a smaller patition than what I use to backup with? Any suggesstions appreciated. Thanks in advance. TE7

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