Vista is a turkey -- 'gobbles' HD partitions??

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Vista has thrown a curve ball at me. I installed Vista from CD onto a clean
hard drive. Therefore, I chose the 'Custom' installation as the 'Upgrade'
installation was not available.

I had 152625 MB of available space on this new 160GB hard drive. Of course,
Vista installation default wanted to install Vista onto all of these 152625
MB partition.

But I had other things in mind -- I wanted to roughly partition my drive 50%
for Vista and 50% for a future Linux install. So I typed 76313 MB for my
Vista install partition, creating that partition in the unpartitioned space.

Vista did a great job installing on that 76313 MB partition space! But now
I can't find the OTHER 50% of the drive. In Windows Explorer, it only lists
one volume (the 76313 MB sized volume). I can find no access to the other
volume to format it.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
 
From the original post author -- NEVERMIND,
I found it, and formatted the second partition.
What had fooled me was the new Aero Interface ...
the unformatted volume was listed to the RIGHT
of the C: drive and I kept looking DOWNWARD
when using the GUI for Windows Explorer.
Doh!!
 
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