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How Do You Install Windows 7 On The Same Hard Drive As Windows Vista?

April 26, 2017Computers electronics install operating SYSTEMS Windows windows 7 Windows Vista

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How Do You Install Windows 7 On The Same Hard Drive As Windows Vista?

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• Buy or Download Windows 7 • Within Windows Vista follow these commands. Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Storage then Disk Management. • Its now time to partition your hard drive. To do so, right click on your current hard drive where Vista is installed (for most people it should be the “C” Drive). • Click on Shrink Volume from the drop down menu (Shrink volume determines the maximum disk space that is allowed for partitioning) this may take a minute or 2. Note (you need at least 16 GB of Hard drive space to install Windows 7). • Click Shrink, this will now create your new partition on your existing hard drive without erasing any data. You should now see this new partition in your Computer management screen. The new partition should be named Unallocated and display the number of GB. • right click on your new partition and choose New Simple Volume. You are now ready to format your new partition. • On this screen choose Format This New Volume with the fo