Now that Windows 7 is creeping up on general availability, you'll probably want to remove your RC installation. I assume most of you interested are running these pre-release versions in a dual boot ...

If you intend to not use boot disks all the time then it is. Most BIOSes can't boot on a partition beyond the 1023rd cylender. What most people do is just make a small (~50 meg) /boot partition at the ...

For the past month or so, I’ve been leisurely migrating to Windows 7–at my own pace. If you’ve been following along, thus far we’ve partitioned the hard drive and installed Windows 7 on a new ...

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I moved Windows 7 onto my primary laptop this weekend after testing it on another machine in my lab. Rather than wipe out the Vista installation on my laptop, I decided to set it up as a dual boot ...

Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data. See Reasons to ...

Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have installed a new unused hard disk, deleted an existing partition, or have some unpartitioned space available on an existing drive. In the ...

This process is essentially the same as the previous page, but using the third-party tool GParted instead of Windows' Disk Management utility. Be sure to have your XP CD on-hand to repair potential ...