"Todd" <> wrote in message
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> So I recently built myself a new system. This week I installed XP on
> a 32gig partition. I installed drivers, then added an antivirus and
> Norton Partition Magic, and finally updated XP.
>
> Today I went to install Vista on a second partition. I should have
> used Partition Magic to create the partition, but XP has always been
> great for letting me create the partition I wanted. The second screen
> said "Install Now", so I was worried it was going to install over my
> XP partition.
>
> I went ahead and clicked through and got to the where you want to
> install screen, and told it to set up in blank space. It's not as
> user-friendly as the XP utility, so I ended up with a 400gig+
> partition.
>
> Other than that, the install went fine.
>
> However, I despise the interface. Mind you, the first thing I do
> after installing XP is find all the options to turn it into 98.
>
> I said, the heck with this, and booted back into XP, then ran
> Partition Magic to shrink the Vista partition. PM told me that there
> was something wrong with the Vista partition and asked to fix it.
> After it did, it said the partition was not identified, and promptly
> shut down. And now it won't run.
>
>
What version of PM? I'm guessing one that is not Vista-compatible? I did the
same thing early on during beta testing with PM 8.
I learned and got Acronis Disk Director 10 (IIRC), which IS
Vista-compatible.
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