yes I did and as of now it won't let me do anything with the 30gb of free space I have. I will have to mess around and find a way to get that space back. I tried the built in diskpart to no avail. When I tired creating a simple volume through disc management I get this error message "There is not enough available space to complete this operation". It shows up as 30gb of free space, yet I can't move forward with this.

I may have to try gparted or Acronis. I even read that someone was able to put in an XP setup disc to create the partitions and then they put the Vista disc back in to reload the OS.

I'll admit this is a little frustrating, but I have read tons of threads from others with similar issues.