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Old 03-03-2009, 12:49 AM
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trouble Deleted both XP/Vista partitions from dual boot


Sounded like a good idea at the time, but I previously had a dual boot set-up with XP loaded first and Vista second. (x64) for both

My Vista partition became full so I was ready to get rid of XP and try to combine both partitions so I would have more space for Vista. I thought the best way to do this would be to remove both OS's and reload Vista and make the partition bigger at that time....

I deleted both partitions thinking it would let me format/ recreate a bigger single partition for Vista. It won't do that. I now have 2 unallocated drives and no primary drive, only a logical. I tried then to just reload Vista onto the same partition it just came off of and it starts to load and then I get an error.

My system is set up in a RAID 0 config and the array shows up in the BIOS.

I additionally have a swap partition and a data partition that I can see when I am trying to load Vista so I believe those are okay.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I might try to get Vista back on and or how I can combine these to "unallocated" drives as one.

Is it something to do with a RAID driver needed for the OS to continue?

Thanks much for your help!!



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