The drive order/drive letter honestly doesn't matter. It will work just as well regardless. Whether you use Symantec's Partition Magic, Acronis' Disk Director, or Paragon's Partition Manager, though, be sure to backup your important files first...splitting a partition can occasionally result in the loss of data.
Hope this helps,
John
I have a compaq laptop that is vista capable. I want to dual boot it with xp first and vista
second on the same hard disk drive. There's one issue im having...Compaq's recovery program
is on a partition of it's own and i don't want to overwrite that. Im using partition magic to
see that the recovery partition listed as D drive and XP and all my other files is on the C drive.
Now from what i've read before...i should make the partition for vista in between the C drive and
D drive not after the D drive is that correct? Other's are saying it doesn't matter where you put it.
Also, beside's Partition magic, what other good partitioning
programs is there that i can use so i can make sure the partion is created on my hard disk drive correctly?

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