[acnuts]

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.

[dovdo]

Bootmanager: Buy BootUS

http://www.boot-us.com/

Choose True hide primary partition automatically

It's the best!


For resizing partitions, use Acronis products

Cheers

This post has been edited by dovdo: 13 October 2008 - 03:59 AM

[aviv00]

i duno if its possible

but here a way that might work


rename windows folder to win and the rest of the os's folders

install again and then use easyboot and bcdedit to update/add win folder

ps try using unattain and change the program folder

This post has been edited by aviv00: 13 October 2008 - 05:10 AM

[jaclaz]

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 covered

There 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.sourc...et/features.php

Quote

WARNING: 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