Partitioned?

[ayabrea38]

I thik I have partitioned our harddrive,after fiddling for a bit I got NEW DRIVE E showing.The reason I tried to do this is hubby remembers ages ago hearing of someone who was running 2 OSs on the same hard disk.He likes windows ME,I prefere vista or 7 so are trying to stumble through with the help of a book and you guys!
Am I heading in the right direction now?
Between us we managed to get this far but I sometimes get a bit stuck.
Any help(put simply please!)would be great
Thanks

[VHG]

>He likes windows ME

Tell him to move on from Windows ME.

This is VERY old technology, and is based on the old "DOS" product which is not very stable and cant multitask very well.

Also new devices like printers probably wont have Windows ME drivers etc.

The "new" versions of Windows are FAR better (even Vista).

[ayabrea38]

Bit negative there VHG and not answering my question at all.
BTW, ME runs all our printers,scaner etc just fine,Vista cannot run the scanner.

[rojash]

If you have successfully created a new partition, then you should be able to install Win7 onto it, and it should automatically create a boot menu, to allow you to boot into either ME, or Win7.

Having said that, if your machine is capable of running ME, (i.e. you can get drivers for all the devices and peripherals) then it's almost certainly NOT capable of running WIn7. I don't know of any manufacturer who provides drivers ranging from ME to Win7.

It may well be that you can't get Win7 drivers for your scanner (have you checked the manufacturer's web site?). But as VHG says, in the (only slightly) longer term, you are going to find exactly the reverse is true - i.e. any new devices you buy will not run with ME.

[bigbrain_biggerego99]

If you like Windows ME, you could try XP, it's my fave.
Alot like ME, but with more 3D, pretty much the same, and should perform the same, too. It's just a small step in the right direction (Which is leaving 2D icons and pixely squares behind...)...
That's all the advice I can give (And it's not really on the subject either--Sorry!)...

Hope this somehow helped

BBBE99
(Sorry about the name cutting off everyone's answers...)