When you booted up into Windows XP, do you remember how disk manager stated
the Vista partition was categorized? Did it have a partition letter? Was it
listed as unknown? Was it listed as RAW.
Usually when you are setting up a dual boot situation you should do
partition work from within the new operating system. The new O/S is very
likely to be backward compatible to work with partitions that the older O/S
can see. But the old O/S may not be able to correctly see, or create, viable
partitions for the new O/S to work with.
I have experienced a great many errors using Partition Magic 8.01 when
trying to start the program. It just doesn't like partitions created by
Vista and shows the drive as corrupted, even though I can boot into both
Vista and XP.
Using Acronis Disk Director, from the boot CD, all the drives are seen
correctly.
That being said, I do ALL of my partition work booting up with the Disk
Director CD. After the partitions are created and formatted, I install the
operating systems to the intended partitions.
--
Regards,
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)
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If you knew as much as you think you know,
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"John Whitworth" <sexyjw@gEEEEEEEEEmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Were you trying to add a new partition in unallocated available space.?
>> How large is the drive? How much unallocated space was available when you
>> began the process? What was the size of the partition you were trying to
>> create?
>>
>> You really give no information other than it didn't work.
>>
>
> Sorry.
>
> My disk (Disk 0) (232.88GB) was set up like this:
>
> Primary Partition
> ===========
> Windows XP (C
34.18 GB NTFS Healthy (System)
>
> Extended Partition containing...
> =====================
> Downloads (D 9.77GB NTFS Healthy
> Programs (E 39.06GB NTFS Healthy
> Games (I 34.18GB NTFS Healthy
> Old Drive (H 29.29GB NTFS Healthy
> 86.40GB Free Space
>
> I then installed Vista into 40GB of the free, unallocated space. All was
> well, and I had another 46GB of free space remaining. So that my Disk 0
> looked somewhat like this...
>
> Primary Partition
> ===========
> Windows XP (C 34.18 GB NTFS Healthy (System)
>
> Extended Partition containing...
> =====================
> Downloads (D 9.77GB NTFS Healthy
> Programs (E 39.06GB NTFS Healthy
> Games (I 34.18GB NTFS Healthy
> Old Drive (H 29.29GB NTFS Healthy
> Vista (O 40GB [approx]
> 46.5GB [approx] Free Space
>
> Both Vista and XP booted perfectly, and all was well, until I tried to
> create a new 5GB partition for some application specific data, using Disk
> Management in XP. Instead of the 5GB drive appearing after the Vista
> drive, the Vista drive became "free space", whilst the new drive sat in
> between that space, and the free space at the end of the disk. So it
> looked something like this...
>
> Primary Partition
> ===========
> Windows XP (C 34.18 GB NTFS Healthy (System)
>
> Extended Partition containing...
> =====================
> Downloads (D 9.77GB NTFS Healthy
> Programs (E 39.06GB NTFS Healthy
> Games (I 34.18GB NTFS Healthy
> Old Drive (H 29.29GB NTFS Healthy
> 40GB [approx] Free Space
> Memory Map (M 5GB NTFS Healthy
> 41.5GB [approx] Free Space
>
> Thanks for looking!
>
> JW
>
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