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- May 25, 2009
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- Ada Michigan
Hi
I'm thinking of installing Windows 8 on my second hard drive.
I'm downloading it right now.
I would like to create a new partition for it so that it isn't on the same volume with my data files.
I've done this often using 3rd party software but never using Windows 7 disk manager.
I have my D:\ drive backed up and will update it before I try anything but is this reasonably straight forward or are there pitfalls I should look out for?
I could always format the disk create the partition and then after installing Windows 8 restore all my data to D:\ again, but I'd like to keep it as simple as possible.
There's over 500 gigs of stuff on my 1TB drive.
Any advice appreciated.
Mike
I'm thinking of installing Windows 8 on my second hard drive.
I'm downloading it right now.
I would like to create a new partition for it so that it isn't on the same volume with my data files.
I've done this often using 3rd party software but never using Windows 7 disk manager.
I have my D:\ drive backed up and will update it before I try anything but is this reasonably straight forward or are there pitfalls I should look out for?
I could always format the disk create the partition and then after installing Windows 8 restore all my data to D:\ again, but I'd like to keep it as simple as possible.
There's over 500 gigs of stuff on my 1TB drive.
Any advice appreciated.
Mike