Can't make New Simple Volume

Hi,

I am trying to make a new volume to setup dual-booting Windows
Vista and WinXP on a PC with preinstalled Vista. Shrink Volume on my
primary partition worked and made a new 9.77GB Unallocated partition.
The problem I have is that I can't make on new Simpile Volume on the
Unallocated partition, The wizard goes through all of it's screens
with no errors, then is crashes with "There is not enough space
available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.". It doesn't
matter what size I chose for the New Volume, I tried the Min, between
the Min and Max, and the Max sizes.

I am also interested in the pros and cons of making a WinXP volume
and using BCD versus putting WinXP is a virtual PC, especially about
using printers without Vista drivers.


Thanks,
Mark