[DragonRidr]

okay here is a snap shot of my drive manger window hope you can see it well enough.




also will try 3.1 and see if it works in the mean time

thanks for the help

[kd1966]

I cannot see that at all............ gotta make it bigger

[DragonRidr]

maybe fast reply wasnt the way to go hope this works for the snap shot

[img=http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/6063/drivemangersnapal0.th.jpg]

[kd1966]

Same problem.......... the image is too small

[DragonRidr]

hope this is better if it ant send me an email and i will send it that way or thru yahoo msnger.

here goes

[DragonRidr]

btw downloaded and tried 3.1 and it did the same thing.

[kd1966]

Ok, combining your messages with the image has provided me with some insights I did not see in your earlier messages/posts........

I see NOW that you are dealing with an IDE/SATA combination, but not only that, but one of your drives contailns a LINUX OS.......... definately not a "common" scenario here, but we will still try to get you up/running.

Some tips on using Linux with Vista........ If you are determined to make Linux work with Vista, you MUST install Linux last (After Vista) and modify your GRUB to include the Vista bootloader info. There is some info on this here, just do a search.

If you DON'T need the Linux OS, a suggestion would be to remove the IDE drive altogether and simply run the SATA with XP and Vista, which is much more "managable"

[DragonRidr]

lunix is installed but i am not useing it at this time and as i said in the first post or least i think i did lol i am willing to format them if that will make it easyer. i never set up grub or messed with the boot or mbr to be able to use lunix as i didnt have a back up of my xp or files and i am a bit causious on some things. hope that helps
DR

[kd1966]

Ok, if you feel that way about it, could you try this....... -

-FIRST, delete the drive from the IDE disk (And leave the unpartitioned space "unallocated")
-Then see if your SATA drive will dual boot between XP/Vista
- If NOT successful, remove the IDE drive altogether and see how your SATA drive dual boots

[DragonRidr]

okay willreformat the lunix partations and see what happens