Laptop coming preloaded with Vista...Suggestions?

[ilikenwf]

I have a nice shiny laptop on the way, preloaded with Vista. I plan on partitioning and keeping the Vista install intact, and then creating/installing XP, OSX86, and Maybe Ubuntu. Is it possible to install these and not have to reinstall Vista? Will your boot manager work for this?

 

[toxic chicken]

yeah, use something like acronis disk director to resize the vista partition.

 

[ilikenwf]

Sweet! I was hoping that would be all I have to do. I already have gparted. Prolly will just use that. Thanks!

 

[mqudsi]

Hey ilikenwf, welcome to NST!

Yeah, toxic's advice is right on the mark, and EasyBCD will work great almost whatever your setup. Let us know if there's a hitch anywhere along the way or if you need any advice or tips on anything...

Good luck!