Hello all,
Basically my problem is this,
I am running Vista Home Premium and, for a couple of reasons,
wanted to install Windows XP on one of my other HDDs.
I backed up the info on the drive and then used Vistas Drive Shrinker
to free up 35 gigs for XP.
When I did that the drive ended up being visible as 35 gigs smaller in
My Computer BUT the free space wasn’t anywhere to be seen. In Drive
Manager the drive still showed up as its original size and there was
nothing extra to partition.
So I deleted the drive and then tried to format it again realizing I’ve
gone a silly way round to install XP and that there was a much easier
way (lesson to me to try these things when Im tired).
The drive deleted fine but wouldn’t format claiming “access denied”.
I decided to just install XP on it using the installer to format the drive.
After trial and error trying to get my computer back into vista after
the XP install the drive was still not visible.
I then used the Vista Repair off the DVD to get into a CMD at boot and
formatted the drive there.
Vista still cannot see it in device manager, drive manager or my
computer!
Vista keeps asking me to install drivers for it at start up. Its identical
to my other drive so I tell it to do the auto install thing. It says it has
been successful but the problem is still present and on another restart
it asks me to install drivers again!
Any ideas of how I can get vista to see my drive again?
(Also yes, I know, I did a silly mistake in the first place =p)
Thank you muchly for your responses!
