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Partition and Dual-Boot Not working properly

Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by KillaHaZe, Aug 30, 2007.

KillaHaZe Notebook Consultant

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Once I got my new laptop with a 120gb hard drive, I wanted to dual boot, so I made three partitions in my hard drive, 30 gb for vista, 30 gb for XP and 50 gb for my files.

The system came with XP Home installed on it. I used partitionmagic in XP to partition the hard drives, then I installed Vista Ultimate. However, I then found a Windows XP Media Center Edition CD and then decided to reinstall that.

Now after I installled Partitionmagic on XP, the partitions do no show up right. For the partition names, there are question marks and the program does not allow me to resize the partitions.

I then tried the partition manager in Vista but the same problem exists. I cannot resize the partitions, like making one smaller and another biffer

Can someone please help?

KillaHaZe, Aug 30, 2007

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Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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When you installed XP MCE after Vista Ultimate you probably screwed up some sort of registry somewhere. From what I understand you need to install Vista AFTER XP for such a dual boot to work; I tried to do it the other way once and ended up just redoing the whole deal.

Chances are I think you should just redo the whole thing and get your partitions right to begin with.

Commander Wolf, Aug 30, 2007

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