Vista & XP partition issue?
I have a 300 GB HD that I had put Vista on initially. Had some issues gaming & decided to try XP to see if the issues showed up on XP in an effort to determine if the issues were hardware related. But when I went to format the HD for XP I noticed the file size wasn't 300GB, it was 127GB. I also didn't see any other partitions on the drive. Is Vista using WinFS file system while XP uses NTFS & XP on install can't see it? If yes can anyone recommend a way to delete the Vista partition? I don't see the options for formating when trying to install Vista.
Currently using XP again & intend to keep using it for now but I would like to figure out why I old formated 127gb & not 300 when I installed XP. Btw the bios reports the HD properly at 300gb.
Edit: Norton Partition Magic 8.0 only supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file systems.
I have a 300 GB HD that I had put Vista on initially. Had some issues gaming & decided to try XP to see if the issues showed up on XP in an effort to determine if the issues were hardware related. But when I went to format the HD for XP I noticed the file size wasn't 300GB, it was 127GB. I also didn't see any other partitions on the drive. Is Vista using WinFS file system while XP uses NTFS & XP on install can't see it? If yes can anyone recommend a way to delete the Vista partition? I don't see the options for formating when trying to install Vista.
Currently using XP again & intend to keep using it for now but I would like to figure out why I old formated 127gb & not 300 when I installed XP. Btw the bios reports the HD properly at 300gb.
Edit: Norton Partition Magic 8.0 only supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2, and Ext3 file systems.
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