interesting

[bailey]

just put together a system for experementing, xp home on a 80 gig drive and vista home premium on a second 80 gig drive and dual booting.
everything runs great.

then I loaded true image home 2009, and then played with that some, practicing backups and burnning to dvdrw's.

then just for the fun of it I booted up with a set of floppies made from another system for partition magic ver, 8.0.

I found it very interesting that it showed the drive with xp home on it very good, but said the drive with vista on it was bad and did not show the partition at all.

so I went into vista control panel and disk management and all the drives and partitions looked normal, except the one for vista, it showed the first 988 MB as not allocated and blank.

this may be why partition magic thought it was bad, could this blank unallocated space be because of the dual booting ?

or should I install partition magic in vista and make a new set of floppies for it ?
and then try booting with the new floppies.

[glc]

Time to throw Partition Magic away - here's a freebie that's Vista-compatible. I just went to Symantec's site, and there is no mention of Vista at all on the PM 8.0 page. Once again, Symantec buys out an excellent product and flushes it down the toilet.

http://www.partition-tool.com/

The only thing that the freebie does not support is 64 bit XP or Vista.

[bailey]

thank you, that worked just fine.

bob