The 320GB drive that came with the Laptop has a 15GB "recovery partition" that seems to be complicating things...
This ?Recovery? partition that Gateway setup is special somehow ? Windows won?t let me change the permissions on that folder. It?s some type of special protected/read only/no modifications. If I try to do anything to it, a message keeps coming up saying that it?s there for my protection, yada, yada, yada. I?ve tried everything in the book to get it to let me change the permissions?no dice.
Backing up a few steps here?when I try to install Vista, it gets almost the entire way through the install process and then it says that it can?t create the boot loader file and the installation quits right there. So I?ve tried finding the boot loader file in XP?well guess what??? It?s not installed on the partition with XP?it?s installed on the Recovery partition because the Recovery partition is set up as the primary partition (i.e. where the computer looks to find booting instructions). I?m guessing that Vista is trying to write the boot loader file, but it can?t because of the Recovery partition not allowing it to do so?strange?I?ll have to research some more, but after everything I?ve read, I think this is the problem. What doesn?t make sense is that it allowed me to put XP on there last night without any mods to the recovery partition?but now trying to add another OS is honking it up?it would be easier for me if I could just start with a clean drive and step through from there?
Can anyone shed some light???
This ?Recovery? partition that Gateway setup is special somehow ? Windows won?t let me change the permissions on that folder. It?s some type of special protected/read only/no modifications. If I try to do anything to it, a message keeps coming up saying that it?s there for my protection, yada, yada, yada. I?ve tried everything in the book to get it to let me change the permissions?no dice.
Backing up a few steps here?when I try to install Vista, it gets almost the entire way through the install process and then it says that it can?t create the boot loader file and the installation quits right there. So I?ve tried finding the boot loader file in XP?well guess what??? It?s not installed on the partition with XP?it?s installed on the Recovery partition because the Recovery partition is set up as the primary partition (i.e. where the computer looks to find booting instructions). I?m guessing that Vista is trying to write the boot loader file, but it can?t because of the Recovery partition not allowing it to do so?strange?I?ll have to research some more, but after everything I?ve read, I think this is the problem. What doesn?t make sense is that it allowed me to put XP on there last night without any mods to the recovery partition?but now trying to add another OS is honking it up?it would be easier for me if I could just start with a clean drive and step through from there?
Can anyone shed some light???
