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i used Acronis Disk Director to create a 20GB FAT32 partition (in order to dual boot win98)

which appeared to be successful, until i rebooted, when it refused to load windows and said i should reboot with the vista disk in my DVD drive to repair the install

it did not successfully and i conclued i needed to reinstall windows

reinstalling vista was very quick and painless

however when booting i get a black screen giving me two options:

1. windows vista
2. windows vitsa (repaired)

choosing 2. gets me to the same error screen, so it is a useless option

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