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i have one single 160 GB SATA II hard disk which is partitoned as follows

XP D:

Vista C:

Music e:

Video f:

MYDOC g:

I used complete PC back up to image my system partition only(c: and d:) NOT the other partition

i was asked to select the partiton that will be included in the image backup.

C: n D: these 2 system partition was already included by default and i DID NOT select other partitons (except C n D i have 3 more partiton as u can c above)

so thus i have created the image in .VHD format and put the IMAGE in>> MYDOC g: partiton

Just installed Home Premium. One concern is the formatting. It asks for the partition to install on and I select "C", which has an existing copy of XP. I select Delete to delete the partition and then select Format. It instantly moved to installing Vista Home Premium.

No option to quick format, however the format took no more than a blink and the installation started.

I figured I did something wrong, so I went through it again.....same thing. What kind of format is it doing? Do we need a third party format program. or should we keep a copy of XP handy to do a real f

Hi,

Running Windows Vista Business and tried to resize my vista partition.

Doesnt appear to have worked and now i just get a BSOD on startup and Vista wont boot in any of the modes (safe mode etc...)

It says use system recovery to fix the problem. When loading system recovery tho it asked to select the operating system. It isnt showing anything tho.

Says load system drivers or something and ive tried everything in there and it still wont show my operating system.

Any idea how i can repair it or will i have to format and reinstall

Hi, I have a dual boot windows xp and Vista home premium. I have a raid 0 setup with a partition for each operating system. I'm aware that booting into XP will remove the restore points from Vista. However, even without booting into XP, Vista will not automatically create a restore point. I can manually create a restore point, but if I reboot the system, it is gone. Is this normal behavior? I thought the restore points would only be removed if I actually booted into XP.
Thanks for any help.

Apologies in advance for the lengthy post.

I started out with one partition, c:, with XP Pro SP2. Then I created a new partition, onto which I installed Vista Ultimate. This installed the bootloader onto the active partition (c:). I also wanted to install linux, so I created an extended partition with two logical partitions on it, one for root and one for the swap file, onto which I installed Ubuntu 6.10. This installed Grub into the MBR. So I had Grub loading either Ubuntu or the Windows Vista bootloader, which in turn loaded XP or Vista.

I was not happy with this arrangement, so I deleted the partitions onto which Ubuntu and Vista had been installed, created a small partition at the beginning of the drive (before the XP partition), and followed the instructions at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=260772, which worked beautifully.