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Move vista to a new partition

Apr 13, 2011 2:55AM PDT

Hi,

My 150gb HDD has no partitions on it. It is a HP G6000 series running vista home premium.

What i would like to do is create a new partition and move vista into it just in case i need to reformat it, its second hand and dont have any installation DVD's with it.

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance...

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Move OK, but does it have to run?
Apr 13, 2011 3:41AM PDT

Windows does not move with any ease. In fact to repair this after the move is so advanced that if you ask the first question we know you can't repair the OS after the move.

-> HP lets you create restore media which is the installation DVD. So in a way it does come with installation DVDs that you create. I'd do that now.

Your word "reformat" needs more work. When we format a drive there is nothing on it. No OS or much else. Are you sure that's what you meant? I see many folk think when you format a drive it will end up with windows ready to be used.

Let's say you want to backup this OS. Why not some external USB drive and CLONEZILLA?
Bob

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More description
Apr 13, 2011 3:57AM PDT

I'm not sure if you've misread or i have, but, what i meant was...

Everything is ok at the moment, however, if something does go wrong i know i will have to format the partition, which is just 1, and lose the OS with it. What i would like to do is make a partition then separate the OS on its own and just format the rest of the drive.

Hope this makes more sense Happy

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Keeping it short.
Apr 13, 2011 4:08AM PDT

No. Such a thing is not supported with the supplied OS and certainly not possible with the restore DVDs you made.

Yes, you could try resizing partitions, moving your files to the other partition but again this fails when we use the restore media.

-> What's stopping you from creating a backup copy?
Bob