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Partitioning your hard drive will vary depending on whether you're running XP or Vista—namely because Vista has a partition tool baked in, XP does not. To partition your hard drive in Windows XP, you'll need to download some sort of third-party partitioning software.

There are a lot of options available, but I prefer to stick with the previously mentioned GParted live CD , a free, open source boot CD that can handle all kinds of partitioning duties.

You'll boot right into the partitioning tool. HowtoForge's previous guide to modifying partitions with GParted is a great place to start, but it's a fairly basic procedure:. The folks at Redmond were kind enough to include a disk partitioning tool in Vista if you know where to look.

Once you launch the Computer Management tool, click on Disk Management under the Storage heading in the sidebar. It's partitioning time. Luckily we've already gone down this road before in step-by-step detail, complete with pictures, so check out our previous guide to creating a new partition in Vista. In a nutshell, you'll need to shrink your current OS partition to free up at least 16GB of disk space per the Windows 7 minimum system requirements , then create a "New Simple Volume" from the free space.

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Klicken Sie auf Jetzt neu starten , um den Computer neu zu starten. To create a Windows 7 disc, pop a blank DVD into your burner, and burn it as an image file with any of the countless apps that can handle ISOs. Moving on to more pressing matters, we will need to create unallocated disk space by resizing an existing partition in your current hard drive, and then create a new partition on that free space for Windows 7 to run on.

While Windows Vista has built-in utilities to resize active partitions, XP does not, and thus we must resort to using a third party application GParted. You should now see unallocated space on your hard drive in the capacity you specified, situated just after your now resized original partition.

On your way through the wizard you'll be asked to define the capacity for your new volume to be; let it occupy the entire size of the unallocated space you've created, assign it the letter that you've just freed, quick format the volume using the NTFS file system and default allocation unit size volume label can be anything, just name it Windows 7.

You should now see a healthy primary partition with the capacity and label previously defined replace the unallocated space.