Hard Drive Contents Corrupted After Install???

[Guest]

This problem occurs every time I install Vista RC1. I am trying to install on
a Maxtor 80GB IDE Hard Drive, currently set up using MaxBlast 3, a
third-party partitioning software. I must use this software to set up the
hard drive since my motherboard has the irritating 30GB hard drive barrier.

In the setup, the copying and expansion of files all go well. Then the
computer restarts and will not boot. I checked my hard drive using MaxBlast 3
and found that the partition name was changed to symbols, the partition size
changed from 80GB to 8 GB, and the hard drive rendered corrupt.

I am beginning to think the MaxBlast partitioning software is at fault. If
this doesn't seem like the problem, what is causing it?

 

[Tom Scales]

This problem occurs every time I install Vista RC1. I am trying to install
on
a Maxtor 80GB IDE Hard Drive, currently set up using MaxBlast 3, a
third-party partitioning software. I must use this software to set up the
hard drive since my motherboard has the irritating 30GB hard drive
barrier.

In the setup, the copying and expansion of files all go well. Then the
computer restarts and will not boot. I checked my hard drive using
MaxBlast 3
and found that the partition name was changed to symbols, the partition
size
changed from 80GB to 8 GB, and the hard drive rendered corrupt.

I am beginning to think the MaxBlast partitioning software is at fault. If
this doesn't seem like the problem, what is causing it?

I would believe it is Maxblast. What makes you think that Vista supports
it?

 

[Guest]

Yes, I think it is MaxBlast as well. Vista probably corrupted the boot
sector. I'll have to use Vista's "Repair my computer" function to fix this.

Well, first, I'll try using the new version of MaxBlast (MaxBlast 4). Is
there a good partitioning program out there that allows me to break the
motherboard 30GB barrier WITHOUT altering the boot sector?