I can't delete or add my partition

[hillian6]

I have a 1T Maxtor sata hd. I have 60gigs to the OS and the rest for everything else. Well the everything else partition wasn't getting anything because I was a dummy and just installed everything on the OS partition.

I'm not exactly sure what happened but I had to reboot and when i loaded my computer back up the second partition is now gone!

so I booted up my vista disk to just format it so it would reappear but then I get a 0x8004240f error saying unable to add a partition. When I was on that screen one said C: 60gigs and the rest of it was unallocated. Now I think it won't add a partition cause theres already a partition on it, but it won't even let me delete the partition thats on there. Yet why does it say that partition is unallocated?

All the stuff thats on that partition was stuff that can be replaced. I just want my space back.

 

[ChinoNYC]

Did you try booting from the Vista disk to create partitions in the text-based setup??

 

[hillian6]

Did you try booting from the Vista disk to create partitions in the text-based setup??

It wasnt a command line its was the original vista install gui setup

 

[kimsland]

Here is Vista Hom Guides: http://www.windowsvista.windowsrein...ls,_Diagnostics,_Reinstalls_and_Repair_Guides.
Select your option (Repair\Install\Remove etc) and confirm those are the steps that you have taken

 

[hillian6]

On the guide I did it from the install. But i got to the hard drive area and my main partition was there (60)gigs and the "unallocated" space roughly 830 gigs was also there. I would click new for the unallocated part and it would give me a 0x8004240f error.

 

[kimsland]

It's a faulty master boot record (MBR)
You need to remove all partitions, you can use a tool like the free Gparted

GParted Live CD/USB/HD/PXE

Live ISO 95Meg
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779

Free ImgBurn ISO burning application Download:
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download
Or use your own burning software (Nero?)

Once the Live CD is created, start your computer up with the Live Gparted CD in the drive, and "Boot" from it

 

[LinkedKube]

Go to the manufacturing site and download the disk check tool. You can make a bootable utility to check the HDD

 

[hillian6]

I'll try this stuff out when i get home and get back to you guys