Ok, title pretty much says it all, I made a true image backup of my XP install first, to another drive. Then, I formatted and did a clean install of Vista. I now realize that this hard drive is way too small for my Vista x86 install. So, I would like to
A: Copy the vista install from this hard drive to a 200 gig drive. I am guessing I would just make an image and put it on my D: drive with Acronis.
B: Remove my current C: drive and install the 200 gig drive.
C: Run something like Acronis Disk Director and partition the drive into 3 pieces. I am think 60 gigs for Vista, 20 gigs for XP, and the rest for storage.
D: Restore the Vista image to the first partition.
E: Restore the XP image to the second partition.
F: Take the original drive to another PC and delete all partitions and format it for install in another PC.
On the surface it sounds good, but I really don't understand how the boot manager is going to work for all this. When I restore the image for the first OS (Vista) from acronis, do I also need to restore the MBT?
I am sure most of these things have been covered elsewhere, but I doubt if all together.
Thanks!
A: Copy the vista install from this hard drive to a 200 gig drive. I am guessing I would just make an image and put it on my D: drive with Acronis.
B: Remove my current C: drive and install the 200 gig drive.
C: Run something like Acronis Disk Director and partition the drive into 3 pieces. I am think 60 gigs for Vista, 20 gigs for XP, and the rest for storage.
D: Restore the Vista image to the first partition.
E: Restore the XP image to the second partition.
F: Take the original drive to another PC and delete all partitions and format it for install in another PC.
On the surface it sounds good, but I really don't understand how the boot manager is going to work for all this. When I restore the image for the first OS (Vista) from acronis, do I also need to restore the MBT?
I am sure most of these things have been covered elsewhere, but I doubt if all together.
Thanks!
