Vista - can you partition within Vista like Acronis can ?

Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?

i'm talking splitting with data in place

thanks

Not a good idea. You need to purchase an external USB hard drive
and perform periodic backups. Otherwise, if your hard drive fails,
you'll also lose access to the data and all will be lost.

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Carey Frisch
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Windows Desktop Experience -
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"april" wrote:

Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?

i'm talking splitting with data in place

thanks

"april" <> wrote in message
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> Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?
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> i'm talking splitting with data in place
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> thanks



If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get an
external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I think Secure
zone is out dated.

Good luck, Rich

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <> wrote in message
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> Not a good idea. You need to purchase an external USB hard drive
> and perform periodic backups. Otherwise, if your hard drive fails,
> you'll also lose access to the data and all will be lost.


Keeping data on a separate partition IS a good idea. Anytime you need to
reinstall the OS after a major problem, all data is kept protected. Using a
separate drive for data is better, but in the case of laptops, this is not
possible.

ss.

"Rich" <> wrote in message
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>> Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?
>>
>> i'm talking splitting with data in place
>>
>> thanks
>
>
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> If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get an
> external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I think
> Secure zone is out dated.
>


Huh? He's talking about partitions. Not TrueImage. And Secure Zone works
fine with Vista.

ss.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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> "Rich" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>>
>>> Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?
>>>
>>> i'm talking splitting with data in place
>>>
>>> thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get
>> an external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I think
>> Secure zone is out dated.
>>
>
>
> Huh? He's talking about partitions. Not TrueImage. And Secure Zone
> works fine with Vista.


I was told by Acronis that Secure Zone was greyed out as an option in Vista?

"Rich" <> wrote in message
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>>> If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get
>>> an external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I think
>>> Secure zone is out dated.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Huh? He's talking about partitions. Not TrueImage. And Secure Zone
>> works fine with Vista.
>
>
> I was told by Acronis that Secure Zone was greyed out as an option in
> Vista?

I use the recovery manager with a multiboot with different OSs, but it seems
to work fine. I'll have to double check if it works within Vista itself,
but that would be news to me.

ss.

"Rich" <> wrote in message
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> "Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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>> "Rich" <> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>>>
>>>> Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?
>>>>
>>>> i'm talking splitting with data in place
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get
>>> an external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I think
>>> Secure zone is out dated.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Huh? He's talking about partitions. Not TrueImage. And Secure Zone
>> works fine with Vista.
>
>
> I was told by Acronis that Secure Zone was greyed out as an option in
> Vista?
>
>
>

You were given incorrect information. Acronis Secure Zone has always
worked flawlessly for me running Vista Ultimate x86.

C.B.


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It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
and unfortunate among us.

"Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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> "Rich" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>>> If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get
>>>> an external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I
>>>> think Secure zone is out dated.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Huh? He's talking about partitions. Not TrueImage. And Secure Zone
>>> works fine with Vista.
>>
>>
>> I was told by Acronis that Secure Zone was greyed out as an option in
>> Vista?
>
> I use the recovery manager with a multiboot with different OSs, but it
> seems to work fine. I'll have to double check if it works within Vista
> itself, but that would be news to me.
>
> ss.
>


It works just fine for me from within Windows. I just checked it again.
No problem.

C.B.


--
It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
and unfortunate among us.

"C.B." <> wrote in message
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> "Rich" <> wrote in message
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>> "Synapse Syndrome" <> wrote in message
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>>> "Rich" <> wrote in message
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>>>>>
>>>>> Wondering if i go Vista do i need acronis to split my drive up ?
>>>>>
>>>>> i'm talking splitting with data in place
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If your talking about secure zone that doesn't work with Vista yet. Get
>>>> an external drive and backup to that and don't use secure zone...I
>>>> think Secure zone is out dated.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Huh? He's talking about partitions. Not TrueImage. And Secure Zone
>>> works fine with Vista.
>>
>>
>> I was told by Acronis that Secure Zone was greyed out as an option in
>> Vista?
>>
>>
>>
>
> You were given incorrect information. Acronis Secure Zone has always
> worked flawlessly for me running Vista Ultimate x86.
>
> C.B.
>
>
> --
> It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
> and unfortunate among us.
>
>

OK great I stand corrected. I go to the
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/index.php site often to check for updates and
information and there people (Acronis) said it was greyed out. I just went
by what I was told.

Sorry for the confusion, Rich