If you were trying to dual XP and Vista, you shrink the Vista Partition, not
delete it..
You were trying to delete a partition.
Unallocated space means exactly what it says; there is nothing there.
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Mad Mike
"outbackpaul" wrote:
[Quoted Text] > > I was attempting to dual boot XP with Vista installed first on a laptop. > I used Partition Manager 9 and was trying to delete a partition. While > it was working Vista went into standby. Well, I couldn't get it out of > standby so I did a hard stop. Now the only partition that shows up is > the recovery partition. I can view the structure when I take that laptop > drive out and hook it up on my XP computer and the partition that I need > is saying that it's "unallocated" I've tried so many things like the > repair tool that came on the Vista disc and the instructions located at > ' http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Reco...er+from+the+DVD'> ( http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Recovering+the+Vista+Bootloader+from+the+DVD).> On that website I cannot perform the function of rebuilding the > BCD(whatever that is). > > I have used the bootrec.exe tool on the Vista disc but it's not finding > any windows installations. > > I have attached a screenshot of what the disk looks like. > > I need help. Where do I go from here? > > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ > |Filename: ScreenShot010.jpg | > |Download: http://www.vistax64.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=8077 | > +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > -- > outbackpaul > |