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| Kiddix
Platform Installation Guide for
Microsoft® Windows Vista™ |
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| This guide is for Kiddix Platform users with a version older than 1.0.19. |
Kiddix Platform version 1.0.19 began shipping on February
14, 2008 from Amazon.com, and March 1, 1008 from CafePress. If you
placed your order from these places on or after this date, then this
guide is not needed.
We will continue to provide this guide in support of customers with older versions of the Kiddix Platform. |
Due to some differences in how Windows Vista places files on your
harddrive our installer can't properly resize your C: drive.
Before installing the Kiddix Platform on your machine you will
need to manually resize your C: drive from the Windows Control Panel.
This document will walk you through the process. It is critical to follow this guide to
ensure your files do not become corrupted.
Click here to see
a screenshot guide of each step.
- Boot
your system into Windows Vista.
- You
will need to open the Disk Management utility. To open, navigate
the following:
- The
Disk Management utility should show the available disks on your system.
A typical machine will have one disk (C:), that is listed as
"Disk 0" on the lower portion of the Disk Management window.
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- Right click with the mouse on
the drive you would like to resize (in this case Disk 0)
- Select
'Shrink Volume'
- This will bring up a screen
that says 'Shrink C:' that has a few options.
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- On the 'Shrink C:' window,
there will be a spinbox that says 'Enter the amount of space to shrink
in MB.
- Select
the amount of space you would like to allocate for the Kiddix Platform
in the spinbox. The number
displayed here is in MB **. 10240 MB is equivalent to 10 GB *
-- (1 GB = 1024 MB).
We
recommend that a
Kiddix Platform installation have at least 10 GB of space to ensure
your child doesn't run out of room while using the system. 5 GB
(5120 MB) is the
minimum, and of course you may choose to allocate more than 10 GB of
space.
* GB = Giga Byte
** MB = Mega Byte
- Click
the 'Shrink' button to shrink your Windows Vista partition. This
will take a few
moments while the partition is shrinking.
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- At this point you have
successfully created some free space on your harddrive for Kiddix.
- Insert Kiddix Platform CD-ROM
and reboot the machine.
- Follow the directions in the
Quick Start Guide to boot your machine off the CD-ROM.
- Once the machine finishes
booting off the CD-ROM the Kiddix Installer will appear on the screen.
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- The Kiddix Installer will
show the 'Existing free space' on the drive.
- In our example we can see
there is 10.01 GB free. This is because we resized the drive to
have 10 GB free space and there was 0.01 GB existing free space
beforehand.
- Under the 'Install Size'
spinbox you will not want to enter a number greater than the number
reported by 'Existing Free Space'.
- If you enter a number greater than the
'Existing Free Space' you risk resizing your Windows Vista installation
which can harm your files.
- We recommend that you choose a
number that is slightly less than the 'Existing Free Space'. Here
we will choose 10.00 GB (slightly less than 10.01 GB).
- Stop! Important step: Before continuing with the installation process, review the install plan and make sure it DOES NOT include the following as a step:
"Resize current operating system to make room for Kiddix"
If the installer prompts you that it will resize the current operating
system, verify that your install size is less than the current free
disk space.
Do not
continue the install process until the installer no longer wants to
resize the current operating system. Continuing may cause
corruption to files on your hard drive.
Please
note: Versions of Kiddix released prior to 12/4/07 contains an
occasional installation bug where it will decide to resize the existing
operating system even if there is enough free space. If this
occurs, select expert options, and under the "Install to" options,
select the option "Limit to specific partition", and then select
the option "Automatic". This will correct the issue. This
problem has been resolved in our 1.0.14 release.
- From
this point the directions are the same as those found in the Quick
Start Guide.
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