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Tech Mentor
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Tech Mentor
Personally i like install my OS again creating a dual boot format. The reason i would advise this is if your MAIN OS ever crashes from just daily use, it wont affect the other OS on the second partition.
The actual size of the partition dosnt really matter
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Agreed with ^ this guy
Here is what i would do:
(I might make mistakes, thats because i havent used Windows in a while, so double check)
For the size for a new partition:
work out the total GB's of music
+ (+/-) 10GB for operating system minimum (if i remember vista & 7 are around 7.5gb)
then work out how much music you will collect in the next year(s)
Copy all the stuff you want transferred onto a back-up drive.
Then partition the drive
Then for the technical part: (make your pc dual boot, make sure you double check this!!)
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-Make sure you have working windows install discs
-Start your PC from the new partition with the windows CD's in the drive
-follow on-screen instructions -> install windows.
-after windows has installed and you have created a new account, simply put all your copied stuff from your back-up drive onto the new account (if your stuff is well organized it helps when copied/saves time)
-Set up your start up disk as the one you want to normally boot from (if this exists in windows)
or alternatively do this:
2) Clone your current hard drive which saves having to re-install windows but im unsure how that works as i have only done that with OSX
or
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-go down to your local apple store
-purchase a mac
-copy all your stuff on that
-Congratz you are now moving forward in the world of technology
I hope that this helps you but as I said please double check about partitioning and installing Windows for dual booting
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