Sharing NTFS partitions. Need help.

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I'll try to make this direct and concise.

I made a 30GB partition for Linux on my HDD. I did the first step wrong and
made a 30GB partition for Windows. So 30 for XP, 30 for Linux.

The remaining 60GB I formatted to NTFS (same as C:), and that's now drife F:.

I tried to download Vista and it says I only have 8GB free. So it's not
recognizing F:. Is there a way to correct this? I was in disk management and
didn't really see what looked like an answer. Any help? If more info is
needed, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.
 
Jon said:
I'll try to make this direct and concise.

I made a 30GB partition for Linux on my HDD. I did the first step
wrong and made a 30GB partition for Windows. So 30 for XP, 30 for
Linux.

The remaining 60GB I formatted to NTFS (same as C:), and that's now
drife F:.

I tried to download Vista and it says I only have 8GB free. So it's
not recognizing F:. Is there a way to correct this? I was in disk
management and didn't really see what looked like an answer. Any help?
If more info is needed, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.
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Since your question is really about installing Vista, post in one of the
Vista newsgroups. There are a bunch of newsgroups devoted to Vista
hosted on Microsoft's public msnews.microsoft.com server. Remember,
Vista is still beta! Don't install beta software on a production
machine or any machine that you are unwilling to completely wipe!

Malke
 
Well, it's more than Vista. It's something I know would be an issue, but this
just happened to be the first time I had to deal with it. It's a matter of
sharing the partitions in general. Not Vista-exclusive.
 
Jon said:
I'll try to make this direct and concise.

I made a 30GB partition for Linux on my HDD. I did the first step
wrong and made a 30GB partition for Windows. So 30 for XP, 30 for
Linux.

The remaining 60GB I formatted to NTFS (same as C:), and that's now
drife F:.

I tried to download Vista and it says I only have 8GB free. So it's
not recognizing F:. Is there a way to correct this? I was in disk
management and didn't really see what looked like an answer. Any
help? If more info is needed, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.
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You have 8 MB of unallocated space. XP always leaves that so you can convert
a drive to dynamic if needed. If there is nothing presently on the F:
partition then delete the partition and you can recreate it during the Vista
install. If you need to keep the partition as is then during the Vista
install it will show up as allocated space. You should be able to tell by
the size which partition it is.
 
Jon said:
I'll try to make this direct and concise.

I made a 30GB partition for Linux on my HDD. I did the first step
wrong and made a 30GB partition for Windows. So 30 for XP, 30 for
Linux.

The remaining 60GB I formatted to NTFS (same as C:), and that's now
drife F:.

I tried to download Vista and it says I only have 8GB free. So it's
not recognizing F:. Is there a way to correct this? I was in disk
management and didn't really see what looked like an answer. Any
help? If more info is needed, just let me know.

Thanks in advance.
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You are having trouble, probably, because the download system detects Linux
on your computer.

Just kidding. But to be safe....
 
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