Hmmm,
won't let me create partition as said already have max on drive (see screen shot). To be honest not sure what those bits at the start and eod of the drive (275MB and 6.24G)
This drive was created from a Clone of the original hard drive of identical size (but had some faults) using Acronis easy migrate (trial version) and that image was originally cloned from the original Dell 200GB hard drive (hence the recovery partition)
Should I just delete that end 6.24GB?
Thanks for input.
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by: guitarobPosted on 2009-10-30 at 13:11:47ID: 25706408
Boot into your Vista installation. Right click on My Computer and select "Manage". In the left hand pane, select "Disk Management". Right click on your hard drive in the right hand pane and select "Shrink Partition" this will launch a wizard allowing you to cut your partition size down.
Once complete, create a new basic volume in the unallocated space and format as NTFS.
You should then be able to install Windows 7 on the newly created partition by booting from the DVD.