dual boot options

If I wanted to do a dual boot with XP pro and Vista and I didn't want to disturb my XP pro installation how would I go about doing that if I don't have partition magic and I have just one big C:\ partition with XP pro on it? Am I outta luck? Do I have to buy PM? I don't really want to have to do a reformat. Is that the only way though? Paula

Partition Magic would be good, since it does a good job at creating and resizing partitions. You could use your XP disk though to create a partition by booting from the CD and use the Text based setup options to create a logical disk space from C:/ -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Paula" wrote in message

If I wanted to do a dual boot with XP pro and Vista and I didn't want to disturb my XP pro installation how would I go about doing that if I don't have partition magic and I have just one big C:\ partition with XP pro on it? Am I outta luck? Do I have to buy PM? I don't really want to have to do a reformat. Is that the only way though? Paula

Hmmm if I use the XP disk will it leave my xp installation intact then? Paula
"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" wrote in message

Partition Magic would be good, since it does a good job at creating and resizing partitions. You could use your XP disk though to create a partition by booting from the CD and use the Text based setup options to create a logical disk space from C:/ -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Paula" wrote in message If I wanted to do a dual boot with XP pro and Vista and I didn't want to disturb my XP pro installation how would I go about doing that if I don't have partition magic and I have just one big C:\ partition with XP pro on it? Am I outta luck? Do I have to buy PM? I don't really want to have to do a reformat. Is that the only way though? Paula