can t dual boot back xp need

Ok last night i made a Partion for xp & vista but now when i go to disk management and try an make my xp Partion active , i can't shows the Partion but says unknown Partion..

You should use 3rd party partitioning software--I used partition magic 8. I think your problem is that you need to create 2 PRIMARY partitions. From within xp I opened PM and made a new 20 gig partition and made it primary, I named it "V" for vista. Was able to choose the new 20 gig partition during install and am now able to dual boot w/out problems.
"boomer" wrote:

Ok last night i made a Partion for xp & vista but now when i go to disk management and try an make my xp Partion active , i can't shows the Partion but says unknown Partion..

I had the same problem as Boomer. I will try again with PM 8. I had a feeling I was going to lose the dual boot. Not that big of a deal, just the loss of time :-/ Thats why its a hobby and not a big deal. Anyway thanks for the hot tip. -- system: AMD 64 3000, MSI k8t Neo,1.5 gig RAM, WD Raptor SATA 74G HD, eVGA 6800 GT, SB live value, Vista beta 2 64 bit/XP Pro 64 bit... Thanks, BJBB

"John Lund" wrote:

You should use 3rd party partitioning software--I used partition magic 8. I think your problem is that you need to create 2 PRIMARY partitions. From within xp I opened PM and made a new 20 gig partition and made it primary, I named it "V" for vista. Was able to choose the new 20 gig partition during install and am now able to dual boot w/out problems.
"boomer" wrote:
Ok last night i made a Partion for xp & vista but now when i go to disk management and try an make my xp Partion active , i can't shows the Partion but says unknown Partion..

I have a Dell laptop running vista premium with MS Works. My printer is an HP deskjet 4240. I can't use the menu commands, print preview, or even print in the daatabase or spreadsheet. Everything is fine in Word. The printer works fine with all other programs. If I set the default printer on the MS XPS documet writer I can use all the menu commands but I still can't print. The driver is current, I've tried uninstalling & re installing both Works & the printer; system restore; spent 1 1/2 hours on the phone with Dell and still I have not found a solution. Device manager shows everything is working fine. HELP!!! I'm totally stumped!

Now that you mention that I remember discovering the same thing when I used the Vista backup utility once, which is why I no longer use it.
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"Patrick" wrote in message

you can but......
if the partition on the raid-0 spans the entire size of the raid-0 combo you have to shrink the partition the a bit smaller that the size of the disk you want to restore to.
I found out the ugly way that the restore wants at least as much diskspace as it had when the backup was made. Even if that amount was not totally used.